ref: 580bb9bb5be87e6132065787f6f1ee704d183c5b
dir: /docs/content/doc/front-matter.md/
+++
title = "Front Matter"
date = "2013-07-01"
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The front matter is one of the features that gives Hugo it's strength. It enables
you to include the meta data of the content right with it. Hugo supports a few
different formats each with their own identifying tokens.
Supported formats: <br>
**YAML**, identified by '\-\-\-'. <br>
**TOML**, indentified with '+++'.<br>
**JSON**, a single JSON object which is surrounded by '{' and '}' each on their own line.
### YAML Example
---
title: "spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website"
description: "spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim."
tags: [ ".vimrc", "plugins", "spf13-vim", "vim" ]
pubdate: "2012-04-06"
categories:
- "Development"
- "VIM"
slug: "spf13-vim-3-0-release-and-new-website"
---
Content of the file goes Here
### TOML Example
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title = "spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website"
description = "spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim."
tags = [ ".vimrc", "plugins", "spf13-vim", "vim" ]
Pubdate = "2012-04-06"
categories = [
"Development",
"VIM"
]
slug = "spf13-vim-3-0-release-and-new-website"
+++
Content of the file goes Here
### JSON Example
{
"title": "spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website",
"description": "spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim.",
"tags": [ ".vimrc", "plugins", "spf13-vim", "vim" ],
"date": "2012-04-06",
"categories": [
"Development",
"VIM"
],
"slug": "spf13-vim-3-0-release-and-new-website",
}
Content of the file goes Here
### Variables
There are a few predefined variables that Hugo is aware of and utilizes. The user can also create
any variable they want to. These will be placed into the `.Params` variable available to the templates.
**Field names are case insensitive.**
#### Required
**title** The title for the content. <br>
**description** The description for the content.<br>
**date** The date the content will be sorted by.<br>
**indexes** These will use the field name of the plural form of the index (see tags and categories above)
#### Optional
**draft** If true the content will not be rendered unless `hugo` is called with -d<br>
**type** The type of the content (will be derived from the directory automatically if unset).<br>
**markup** (Experimental) Specify "rst" for reStructuredText (requires
`rst2html`,) or "md" (default) for the Markdown.<br>
**slug** The token to appear in the tail of the url.<br>
*or*<br>
**url** The full path to the content from the web root.<br>
*If neither is present the filename will be used.*