How to render shortcodes when removing excerpt?

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I’m using Hugo’s built-in excerpt/content feature, but when dealing with the single.html layout I want to remove the excerpt completely.

So I’m using this:

    <article>
        {{ $post := split .RawContent "<!--more-->" }}
        {{ if index $post 1 }}
        {{ index $post 1 | markdownify | emojify }}
        {{ else }}
        {{ .Content }}
        {{ end }}
    </article>

Unfortunately it seems that Hugo cannot render the shortcodes that reside inside the $post. I’ve tried looking for a filter (similar to markdownify or emojify) for shortcodes but no luck.

Am I doing things wrong? How can I render the shortcodes correctly?

Live example of non-rendered shortcode: https://www.primative.net/blog/my-backup-strategy/ (scroll at the middle of the post, you’ll see raw code).

Thanks everyone.

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Did you initialize index? What is the error output?
It’s not clear to me what the variables are but,
I would think something like this would work (after post line):
{{ range index, $element := $post }}
{{ (if eq index 1) }}
{{ $element | markdownify | emojify }}
{{ else }}
{{ .Content }}
{{ end }}

3

Thank you for your reply.

Index does not need to be initialized for this to work. Besides I don’t have any compilation error, it’s just that the shortcode is not interpreted and I get raw template syntax instead.

Your example doesn’t work though, as I do get a compilation error:

ERROR 2018/10/18 09:57:10 Failed to add template "blog/single.html" in path "blog/single.html": template: blog/single.html:53: unexpected "," in operand

4

I forgot$ in front of index.

{{ range $index, $element := $post }}
{{ (if eq $index 1) }}
{{ $element | markdownify | emojify }}
{{ else }}
{{ .Content }}
{{ end }}

5

Nope, still nothing.

(sorry for the late reply I got swamped with work)

Is there any function in Hugo that lets one select the content of a post without its excerpt maybe? I’m really stuck here.

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I’m don’t think you should use the content summary feature. It doesn’t do what you want; it is for showing a short summary at the beginning of the post.

If you want an excerpt, I recommend using a front matter field, such as excerpt. Then you’ll have complete control as you want.

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So if I understand correctly, it’s impossible to extract the main body of a post when using content summary. I feel like this is something that’s missing in Hugo.

Using a front matter field is a good workaround, I think I’ll use that. But since we can use .Summary and .Truncated, it could be nice to use something like .Detail to fetch the rest of a post. Or at leat Hugo should be able to interpret shortcodes inside these like I showed in the first post.

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It isn’t impossible, folks have found lots of ways to do it. For instance:

There is an issue about it as well, linked in one of the threads. But from a content standpoint, what you want is actually a separate field, and not a “summary” per se. A summary is still part of the content.