Frontmatter

Note

This content details additions to the the original version in the Hugo Relearn Theme Documentation.

Front Matter configuration

Instead of using LastModifierDisplayName and LastModifierEmail, this site is instead configured to use Hugo Git Info Variables to pull that content from the git repository storing this website.

This template adds one new Frontmatter option:

ordinal: this is used by the new chapter archetype to override the weight as the chapter’s index.

There are many other items that can be added. See Hugo Frontmatter for details. The Hugo Theme Relearn documentation also has an exhaustive list of frontmatter options for the base theme.

Reveal.js Slides

For Reveal.js slides, the frontmatter is as follows:

---
type: "reveal"
hidden: true
---

These items are used:

type: this tells Hugo to render this page as a Reveal.js page, which will use a different template
hidden: this will remove this item from the menu on the left. This can be added to any page.

Note

Yes, I realize that most pages are using the YAML format for frontmatter (as indicated by the --- surrounding the block as described in the Hugo documentation), but the chapter pages are using TOML (surrounded by +++ instead). I did this simply because the template pages were set that way, but not for any particular reason.