Includes

Include shortcode can include files of different types. By specifying a language, the included file will have syntax highlighting.

{{< include file="relative/path/from/hugo/root" language="go" >}}

file required string

Path of the file (relative to the Hugo root) to include.

Default: none

language optional string

Language for syntax highlighting.

Default: none

options optional bool

highlighting options.

Default: linenos=table

type optional string

Special include type. Supported values are html|page. If not set the included file is rendered as markdown.

Default: none

If no other options are specified, files will be rendered as Markdown using the RenderString function.

Location of markdown files
If you include markdown files that should not get a menu entry, place them outside the content folder or exclude them otherwise.

{{< include file="/static/_includes/example.md.part" >}}

This method can be used to include source code files and keep them automatically up to date.

{{< include file="config.yaml" language="yaml" options="linenos=table,hl_lines=5-6,linenostart=100" >}}

Result:

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---
baseURL: https://hugo-geekblog.geekdocs.de/
title: Geekblog
theme: hugo-geekblog
pygmentsUseClasses: true
pygmentsCodeFences: true
enableGitInfo: true
timeout: 180000
pluralizeListTitles: false

pagination:
  pagerSize: 5

markup:
  goldmark:
    renderer:
      unsafe: true
  tableOfContents:
    startLevel: 1
    endLevel: 9

taxonomies:
  author: authors
  tag: tags

mediaTypes:
  "application/atom+xml":
    suffixes:
      - "xml"

outputFormats:
  Atom:
    # https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html#whatIsAtom
    name: "Atom"
    mediaType: "application/atom+xml"
    # generated file: <baseName>.<mediaType."application/atom+xml".suffixes[0]> = atom.xml
    baseName: "feed"
    isPlainText: false
    rel: "alternate"
    isHTML: false
    noUgly: true
    permalinkable: false
  Json:
    # https://www.jsonfeed.org/2020/08/07/json-feed-version.html
    name: "Json"
    mediaType: "application/json"
    # generated file: <baseName>.<mediaType."application/feed+json".suffixes[0]> = feed.json
    baseName: "feed"
    isPlainText: false
    rel: "alternate"
    isHTML: false
    noUgly: true
    permalinkable: false

outputs:
  home:
    - HTML
    - ATOM
    - JSON
  page:
    - HTML
  section:
    - HTML
  taxonomy:
    - HTML
  term:
    - HTML
    - ATOM
    - JSON

enableRobotsTXT: true

security:
  exec:
    allow:
      - "^git$"
      - "^asciidoctor$"

HTML content will be filtered by the safeHTML filter and added to the rendered page output.

{{< include file="/static/_includes/example.html.part" type="html" >}}

In some situations, it can be helpful to include Markdown files that also contain shortcodes. While the default method works fine to render plain Markdown, shortcodes are not parsed. The only way to get this to work is to use Hugo pages. There are several ways to structure these include pages, so whatever you do, keep in mind that Hugo needs to be able to render and serve these files as regular pages! How it works:

1. First you need to create a directory within your content directory. For this example site _includes is used.
2. Place your Markdown files within the _includes folder e.g. /_includes/include-page.md. Make sure to name it *.md.
3. Include the page using {{< include file="/_includes/include-page.md" type="page" >}}.

Resulting structure should look like this:

_includes/
 ├── include-page.md
 └── _index.md