When writing and changing Hugo templates you will often want to act differently based on whether the page you are looking at is the home page, or any other page. So the post pages, contact, about etc won’t have this content show.
Likewise the reverse is also useful - only show something on the home page. Both of these scenarios are possible through using IF statements in your templates.
On Home Page Only
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{{if.IsHome}}thisisthehomepage{{end}}
Every page except Home Page
For the reverse we have use the ne command and check it against our bool value.
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Hide a Page in Hugo
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Option 1: Draft The simplest way to hide a page when using Hugo is probably to set the post as a draft. This way, you still have the content ready to go for when you need it.
To hide a page by setting it as draft, so our drafts page:
Set Post as Draft Tutorial Option 2: Hide from Posts List You still want the page to be visible, but you don’t want to show it your blog posts list?
Add Word Count & Estimated Reading Time to Posts
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It’s all the trend these days to add “reading time” or a word count on your blog posts to indicate how big they are. We often add a word count as it’s super easy to add to your Hugo site (except we don’t on this site - oops!)
Word Count We can use word counts in our theme template. We’ve shown the likely file below, but might change based on your theme and setup.
Add an RSS Feed
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Although not as sought-after as they once were, RSS feeds can still be a useful addition to any site - if only to allow Google Webmasters to easily crawl it. Luckily, with Hugo this process is very simple as the functionality comes built in and ready to go for when you need it.
