Howto: Limit the number of posts on the homepage

tips & tricks
1

There’s an example and information on the List Templates page of the Hugo website.

ie…
{{ range first 10 .Data.Pages }}
{{ .Render “summary”}}
{{ end }}

or…
{{ range first 5 (where .Data.Pages.ByDate “Section” “posts”) }}

2

I’m trying to use this tip to adapt the homepage template of the hyde theme. All I’ve changed is this:

{{ range first 2 .Data.Pages.Reverse }}
{{ .Render "summary"}}

The number limit and the reverse order work fine, but the summary doesn’t (all the content appears on the page).
The documentation says that the summary is automatically generated so I assume that there’s nothing that I should define in my content’s front matter:

.Summary A generated summary of the content for easily showing a snippet in a summary view.

(from the template variables page).

What I’m missing?

3

.Render is a function call to render views. What you want is the Field .Summary as described here.

4

Ok, got it. I replaced {{ .Content }} with {{ .Summary }} and now it works as expected.
Thanks