Use markdown in my index.html page?

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I am using Hugo 0.16. (I cannot upgrade to Hugo 0.18)

My entire site is written in Markdown except the home page in /layouts/index.html That page (obviously) has the template for the site, but the content there has HTML markup.

Is there a way to use Markdown text there? Many thanks.

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In a roundabout way:

{{ "This is some **markdown**" | markdownify }}
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That’s very helpful. One follow-on question:

Is there some kind of ‘include’ facility that would allow me to place the actual content of the index.html page in the /content/ directory? That would keep all the content for the site in one place…

I’m hoping there’s a way to do something like:

{{ {{ include /content/index.md }}  | markdownify }}

Thanks again!

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You can use content/_index.md Any markdown in that file will be available as {{ .Content }} in your index.html template. Hope that helps!

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That is a good sokution for Hugo 0.18.

Threaf starter asks about 0.16, and while there are potentual hacks via readFile, you are pushing the support for such an old Hugo version.

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Ah, right. A little quick on the draw there

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I will avoid replies by mobile in the future…

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Not include since that’s not part of the Hugo syntax, but you can get close. I think this worked for me on an old site I built in 16 or 17:

  1. Create a partial in layouts/partials/homepage.html
  2. Write the text inside of homepage.html in markdown, even though it has the .html file extension.
  3. Use {{partial "homepage.html" . | markdownify }} in layouts/index.html.

That said, if you’re comfortable with the upgrade, it’s a lot less hackish to go the every-page-is-a-page route with _index.md, as mentioned by @budparr.

HTH.