Includes

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

Usage

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

Attributes

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

Example

Example 1: Markdown file (default)

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" >}}

Example Mardown include

File including a simple Markdown table.

Head 1	Head 2	Head 3
1	2	3

Example 2: Language files

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

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

Result:

                                
                                    
                                        
                                            100
101
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                                            ---
baseURL: https://geekdocs.de/
title: Geekdocs
theme: hugo-geekdoc

pygmentsUseClasses: true
pygmentsCodeFences: true
timeout: 180000
pluralizeListTitles: false

defaultContentLanguage: en

disablePathToLower: true
enableGitInfo: true

enableRobotsTXT: true

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

taxonomies:
  tag: tags

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

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

                                        
                                    

                            

Example 3: HTML

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" >}}

Example HTML include

This is heading 4

This is heading 5

This is heading 6

Example 4: Hugo Pages

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:

First you need to create a directory within your content directory. For this example site _includes is used.
To prevent the theme from embedding the page in the navigation, create a file _includes/_index.md and add geekdocHidden: true to the front matter.
Place your Markdown files within the _includes folder e.g. /_includes/include-page.md. Make sure to name it *.md.
Include the page using {{< include file="/_includes/include-page.md" type="page" >}}.

Resulting structure should look like this:

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

Example page include

Example Shortcode
Shortcode used in an include page.

Head 1	Head 2	Head 3
1	2	3