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**Category:** support\
**Created:** [April 10, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/render-link-html-not-firing-from-renderstring/24602 "2020-04-10T02:34:42Z")\
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**Author:**  [@mitchdennett](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/mitchdennett)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/render-link-html-not-firing-from-renderstring/24602/1 "2020-04-10T02:34:42Z")
{{ readFile “SUMMARY.md” | .RenderString }} doesn’t seem to be firing the render-link.html hook.
Need Help.
**EDITED**
Added a test repo to help describe my problem
> **[mitchdennett/TestHugo](https://github.com/mitchdennett/TestHugo)**
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> Repo For Hugo Support. Contribute to mitchdennett/TestHugo development by creating an account on GitHub.
I recreated this problem in a git repo.
If you look in Sidebar.html in themes/hugo-whisper-theme/layouts/partials I’m reading a file and doing .RenderString. my render-hook doesn’t seem to be getting called when calling `hugo` Look at the index.html in the v1.5 folder that gets generated and the resulting sidebar has no `div`
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**Author:**  [@pointyfar](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/pointyfar)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/render-link-html-not-firing-from-renderstring/24602/2 "2020-04-10T09:06:49Z")
Please read [Requesting Help](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/requesting-help/9132)
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**Author:**  [@mitchdennett](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/mitchdennett)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/render-link-html-not-firing-from-renderstring/24602/3 "2020-04-10T13:44:59Z")
Fair Enough. I will get a git repo to recreate this.
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**Author:**  [@mitchdennett](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/mitchdennett)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/render-link-html-not-firing-from-renderstring/24602/4 "2020-04-10T14:12:28Z")
> **[mitchdennett/TestHugo](https://github.com/mitchdennett/TestHugo)**
>
> Repo For Hugo Support. Contribute to mitchdennett/TestHugo development by creating an account on GitHub.
I recreated this problem in a git repo.
If you look in Sidebar.html in themes/hugo-whisper-theme/layouts/partials I’m reading a file and doing .RenderString. my render-hook doesn’t seem to be getting called when calling `hugo` Look at the index.html in the v1.5 folder that gets generated and the resulting sidebar has no `div`
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**Author:**  [@mitchdennett](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/mitchdennett)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/render-link-html-not-firing-from-renderstring/24602/5 "2020-04-10T14:27:00Z")
It does work when running `hugo server` but not when building the site using `hugo`
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**Author:**  [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/render-link-html-not-firing-from-renderstring/24602/6 "2020-04-10T14:40:44Z")
> [@mitchdennett](#):
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> {{ readFile “SUMMARY.md” | .RenderString }}
Not commenting on your actual problem, but I would just bypass it and use GetPage. Store your markdown in headless bundles/sections or something.
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**Author:**  [@mitchdennett](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/mitchdennett)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/render-link-html-not-firing-from-renderstring/24602/7 "2020-04-10T15:15:08Z")
So that works! Thanks. There does still seem to be an issue with the .RenderString but i can bypass it. So I’m good. Thanks!
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/render-link-html-not-firing-from-renderstring/24602/8 "2020-04-12T15:15:12Z")
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