Since the homepage is handled differently from other site content it appears there’s no way to include homepage specific metadata as frontmatter. My use case is to maintain a ‘Last updated’ variable in the frontmatter, which is displayed in the footer of each page. I wrote a short node script that…

Hugo already provides a variable that stores the last modification date of the document that is used to build a page: This page was last modified at {{ .Lastmod }}

I added the following to my template {{ .Lastmod.Format "2006-01-02" }}, which yeilds 0001-01-01. Do I need to tell hugo where I am (timezone?) to get an accurate time?

I found your script in this thread . After having a look at the corresponding issue it seems to default to the date value in the frontmatter and you’ve to overwrite it with the lastmod manually. Since a content change of a file doesn’t affect lastmod I wouldn’t know how to access the last real modif…

@rhewitt Are you trying to do this at the page-level? If it’s across the site, see the thread here that @bep helped me with a short while back: [image] .Site.LastChange stopped working? I have tried the following in a partial called site_copyright.html: © {{ .Site.LastChange.Format "200…

@rdwatters Yes, I’m trying to achieve this on a page-by-page basis (when was the content edited last rather than when was the site built last).

Is there any way to have frontmatter metadata for homepage?

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@rhewitt Are you trying to do this at the page-level? If it’s across the site, see the thread here that @bep helped me with a short while back:

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Is there any way to have frontmatter metadata for homepage?

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