Data via shortcode

support
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Hello - I’m trying to make a shortcode to insert a date. Namely, I just want to insert this year. I tried a few things with {{ .Now.Year }}, but nothing is working.

I’m getting hugo server console errors including things like:

ERROR: ... Date is not a field of struct type *hugolib.ShortcodeWithPage
ERROR: ... Now is not a field of struct type *hugolib.ShortcodeWithPage
ERROR: ... template: shortcodes/now.html:2: bad character U+0024 '$'
ERROR: ... error processing shortcode shortcodes/now.html

I’d like to call something like this:

{{< now Year >}}

… and pass Year or Date as the .Get 0.

A shortcode now.html with this content:

{{ $data := .Get 0 }}
{{ .Now.$data }}

… is not working.

Any ideas?

2

If my memory serves me correct, the .Now func is (strangely) attached to the node … So from shortcode:

{{ .Page.Now }}

We should do better.

3

Nice! That works.

Shortcode year.html:

{{ .Page.Now.Year }}

Usage:

Blah blah {{< year >}}

Thanks for the quick response, @bep!