Using different layouts/partials for the home page and other pages

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Hello,

I’m trying to use Hugo to recreate my portfolio website (I have experience with Jekyll), but I’m really confused about the whole layout/partial thing.

What I’d like to have is:

  • an home page with its own header (but some of the header HTML will be the same, and I’d rather not copy-paste it from the default header)
  • some static pages with the default header
  • blog articles, with the default header as well

All this, in the most DRY way possible. I spent hours looking at existing site templates and themes, but I still don’t know how they achieve this (or if they even do achieve this).

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Not sure if this will really help you, but my theme might have some features you’re looking for and it’s annotated in parts to explain what’s going on. https://github.com/budparr/gohugo-theme-ananke If you have specific questions about it that might help you get to where you want to go, feel free to ask.

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Download several Hugo themes and see how they are arranged inside.