hi all, i’m probably doing something stupid but i’m just not seeing it… my index.html includes a partial template summary.html and said summary template uses {{ .Summary }} to show a preview of the post. this has always worked fine with my html content. However now I made a post in markdown form…

This is as designed. If you want to keep the formatting you have to manually insert the split after the summary (i have this in all my archetypes so I do not have to remember the syntax):

On a blog I’m working on now, I did not like either the auto-rendered summary or the result of putting  after what I want for the summary, so I specify the summary in a frontmatter tag and display that instead. FWIW.

[image] RickCogley: FWIW. Yea, and then you can use the markdownify template func.

you’re right. the  works fine. i can insert it at arbitrary points within the list and the markdown will render properly in the summary as a valid list (i thought perhaps the </ul> would be missing, breaking the layout of the content below but that’s not the case.). Reading the summaries…

beautiful. I like how toml seamlessly supports newlines, so the summary specified in the front matter can be multiple lines. for completeness, this is the approach you and @bep meant right? + {{ if .Params.summary }} + {{ .Params.summary | markdownify }} + …

Yeah, that should work basically, but summary is probably a special or blessed word within Hugo, so you might use another string for the arbitrary one, like postsummary or whatever. {{ if .Params.postsummary }} {{ .Params.postsummary | markdownify }} {{ else }} {{ .Summary }} {{ end}}

Looks good. Here is a related little trick I use: {{ with .Params.title_lead }}<h3 class="post-title-lead">{{ . | markdownify }}</h3>{{ end }} <h1 class="post-title">{{ with .Params.title_main}}{{ . | markdownify }}{{ else }}{{ title .Title }}{{end}}</h1> This is the title section…

Is there a way to still use markdownify, but filter out a specific tag, for example “a” tags as they break things!

[image] variable: Is there a way to still use markdownify, but filter out a specific tag, for example “a” tags as they break things! Sure, it’s called editing. If you do not want “a” tags in your custom summary, don’t put it there.

Markdown content renders as regular text in summary

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bep July 3, 2015, 10:26am 4

Yea, and then you can use the markdownify template func.

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