Site Variables

The following is a list of site-level (aka “global”) variables. Many of these variables are defined in your site’s configuration file, whereas others are built into Hugo’s core for convenient usage in your templates.

Get the Site object from a partial

All the methods below, e.g. .Site.RegularPages can also be reached via the global site function, e.g. site.RegularPages, which can be handy in partials where the Page object isn’t easily available.

Site Variables List

.Site.AllPages

array of all pages, regardless of their translation.

.Site.Author

a map of the authors as defined in the site configuration.

.Site.BaseURL

the base URL for the site as defined in the site configuration.

.Site.BuildDrafts

a boolean (default: false) to indicate whether to build drafts as defined in the site configuration.

.Site.Copyright

a string representing the copyright of your website as defined in the site configuration.

.Site.Data

custom data, see Data Templates.

.Site.DisqusShortname

a string representing the shortname of the Disqus shortcode as defined in the site configuration.

.Site.GoogleAnalytics

a string representing your tracking code for Google Analytics as defined in the site configuration.

.Site.Home

reference to the homepage’s page object

.Site.IsMultiLingual

whether there are more than one language in this site. See Multilingual for more information.

.Site.IsServer

a boolean to indicate if the site is being served with Hugo’s built-in server. See hugo server for more information.

.Site.Language.Lang

the language code of the current locale (e.g., en).

.Site.Language.LanguageName

the full language name (e.g. English).

.Site.Language.Weight

the weight that defines the order in the .Site.Languages list.

.Site.Language

indicates the language currently being used to render the website. This object’s attributes are set in site configurations’ language definition.

.Site.LanguageCode

a string representing the language tag as defined in the site configuration.

.Site.LanguagePrefix

this can be used to prefix URLs to point to the correct language. It will even work when only one defined language. See also the functions absLangURL and relLangURL.

.Site.Languages

an ordered list (ordered by defined weight) of languages.

.Site.LastChange

a string representing the date/time of the most recent change to your site. This string is based on the date variable in the front matter of your content pages.

.Site.Menus

all the menus in the site.

.Site.Pages

array of all content ordered by Date with the newest first. This array contains only the pages in the current language. See .Site.Pages.

.Site.RegularPages

a shortcut to the regular page collection. .Site.RegularPages is equivalent to where .Site.Pages "Kind" "page". See .Site.Pages.

.Site.Sections

top-level directories of the site.

.Site.Taxonomies

the taxonomies for the entire site. Also see section Use .Site.Taxonomies Outside of Taxonomy Templates.

.Site.Title

a string representing the title of the site.

The .Site.Params Variable

.Site.Params is a container holding the values from the params section of your site configuration.

Example: .Site.Params

The following config.[yaml|toml|json] defines a site-wide param for description:

baseURL: https://yoursite.example.com/
params:
  author: Nikola Tesla
  description: Tesla's Awesome Hugo Site

baseURL = 'https://yoursite.example.com/'
[params]
  author = 'Nikola Tesla'
  description = "Tesla's Awesome Hugo Site"

{
   "baseURL": "https://yoursite.example.com/",
   "params": {
      "author": "Nikola Tesla",
      "description": "Tesla's Awesome Hugo Site"
   }
}

You can use .Site.Params in a partial template to call the default site description:

<meta name="description" content="{{if .IsHome}}{{ $.Site.Params.description }}{{else}}{{.Description}}{{end}}" />

The .Site.Pages Variable

.Site.Pages compared to .Pages

• A regular page is a “post” page or a “content” page.
  • A leaf bundle is a regular page.
• A list page can list regular pages and other list pages. Some examples are: homepage, section pages, taxonomy (/tags/) and term (/tags/foo/) pages.
  • A branch bundle is a list page.

.Site.Pages

Collection of all pages of the site: regular pages, sections, taxonomies, etc. – Superset of everything!

.Site.RegularPages

Collection of only regular pages.

The above .Site. .. page collections can be accessed from any scope in the templates.

Below variables return a collection of pages only from the scope of the current list page:

.Pages

Collection of regular pages and only first-level section pages under the current list page.

.RegularPages

Collection of only regular pages under the current list page. This excludes regular pages in nested sections/list pages (those are subdirectories with an _index.md file.

.RegularPagesRecursive

Collection of all regular pages under a list page. This includes regular pages in nested sections/list pages.

Note

From the scope of regular pages, .Pages and .RegularPages return an empty slice.