How to extend or duplicate content?

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I’m looking for a way to extend a existing markdown file. For example:

free-article.md
---
foo: bar
bar: stool
----

Free content

And then I want to extend the information from the free article in a paid-article.md

paid-article.md
---
foo: bar (extend from free-article.md)
bar: stool (extend from free-article.md)
paid: only param
---

Free content (extend from free-article.md)

Paid content

I thought maybe to abuse the multi language feature, but don’t know if that is the way to go.

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There is no way to do what you ask with Hugo natively, as far as I know -but I would love to be proved wrong-.

Currently the only way I would think that you can encrypt a different version or part of a HTML page and hide it behind a paywall, would be on the frontend with JS.

Utilize a JS encryption library as part of a deploy script to selectively manipulate Hugo’s generated HTML.

Recently I opened the following GitHub issue asking for native support to frontend JS encryption:

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I’m using a JS library to encrypt parts of a page. You can see it working here: https://brunoamaral.eu/story/crypto/chapter-2/

And you can get it here: https://github.com/bitwiseshiftleft/sjcl

In my case it’s a caesar cypher, which is weak.

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Currently hard/impossible…?

I jotted down this issue https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5139 some time ago.

Which kind of would model roles on top of languages, but you would then be able to do:

{{ if role.IsMember }}
{{ end }}

In templates etc. etc. It’s a while since I wrote the above, but I sill it’s a great idea, so it must be.

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