So, I wrote a Go package that makes plugins easier to write for Go applications. I think Hugo could get a huge benefit out of this, as everyone always has their pet feature that they want to see implemented. I’d like to get people’s ideas on what kinds of things they’d like to add to Hugo that cou…

There’s enough use cases (not sure if it is in the 1000s, though). There has been a discussion before about expanding the current Pygments-integration in Hugo to a general Exec shortcode, see: Add exec shortcode opened 10:39PM - 14 Jan 15…

Yeah, I was thinking exactly that - that I’d make a plugin that duplicates the functionality of something already in Hugo, so it would be the plugin infrastructure that would be tested, and not the logic of the code the plugin provides :slight_smile:

I love this idea and reviewed the code and think it has a lot of potential. Really excited to see it implemented.

This is a great feature. I haven’t had to patch or modify Hugo yet. But, as I use it on more advanced sites, I’d love to have plugin support as a more standard way to extend things.

Hugo 0.13 was rewritten to add internal support for handlers based on filetype. Currently all are written as part of the Hugo codebase, but it was designed very modularly with plugins in mind. It would be a great place to start with the plugins.

Any news from @natefinch on this? Another, more actively developed library that came up on GitHub (maybe close that, since it’s best to have discussion in one place) is Pingo: [image] GitHub - dullgiulio/pingo: Plugins for Go Plugins for Go. Contribute to dullgiulio/pingo development b…

The plugin system from Packer can be found here: [image] hashicorp/go-plugin go-plugin - Golang plugin system over RPC. This plugin system is used in a number of other Hashicorp tools: Vault, Terraform, … Credits to @mitchellh .

What’s the current state of plugin support in hugo, i.e., is there a way to write them now or does work need to be done to add support for it?

They are not supported. I don’t know of anyone who’s working on that feature right now.

Any further development on this? There are (IMO many) cases that can benefit from this. For example customizing the date/time part of a url can com from a plugin. Instead of 2018/06/12 it can be 2018/Q2 or even comes from other calendars, like Persian Calendar 1397/03/22.

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