Hugo Front Matter

Here is an example front matter, which is like meta data for your content on this page.

Many of these are optional, but here is an example of toml format. You can also use yaml and it doesn’t matter if you use yaml or toml.

Example Front Matter

Here is an example of toml, but you can also do yaml. Yaml starts with — and toml starts with +++

+++
title = "Example Title"
date = 2024-01-21T09:00:00+00:00
lastmod = 2024-01-21T11:00:00+00:00
draft = false
author = "John Doe"
description = "A brief description of the content."
categories = ["Technology", "Hugo"]
tags = ["Web Development", "Static Sites"]
slug = "example-title"
url = "/post/example-title"
type = "post"
layout = "post"
weight = 1
images = ["/images/example1.jpg", "/images/example2.jpg"]
aliases = ["/old-url/", "/another-old-url/"]
+++

Then your markdown goes here

Explanation of Fields

NAME	DESCRIPTION
title	The title of your content.
date	The creation date of the content.
lastmod	The last modification date.
draft	Indicates whether the content is a draft (true or false).
author	The author’s name.
description	A short summary of the content.
categories	Broad groupings for the content.
tags	Specific keywords related to the content.
slug	A URL-friendly version of the title.
url	Custom URL for the content.
type	The type of content (e.g., blog, page).
layout	The layout file to use for rendering.
weight	Used for ordering content.
images	Associated images for the content.
aliases	Alternative URLs that redirect to this content.