I realize that templates can do a lot and they are currently preferred in cases to create your code. But I am curious if anyone has thot to just allow shortcodes everywhere. Templates. Archetypes and so on.
For instance the Hugo-Theme-Learn has a shortcode called CHILDREN. Which basically creates a similar result to its MENU on the left. I modified it to CHILDREN-HOMEPAGE so that I could get a table of contents for the entire site.
In any case if a short code like that could be called in a template… then I would only have to create the code one time.
In addition, a library of shor codes could be created and used across themes…
like I am going to be downloading all the themes soon and going through and taking all their shortcodes and putting them into a library phor my own use.
When I do that I will update them so everyone can have access.
An example here is the hugo-learn-theme has a SEARCH using LunrJS… and it is great. but it appears to downlaod the same JS data on every page where it is used. My site is a language learning site for a constructed language so it is going to be huge. Thus, I will be removing that phrom every page and just putting it on one page. I will mod the template so that in the front matter oph a page I can say something like search=true… and then a short code phor the actual search itself on he page…
point is… that there could be a lot of places that shortcode could be used… in a template itself… in an archetype… and so on.
as to my project of trying to collaborate all these shortcodes I will keep yall posted.
