Hugo Markdown-Reading Shortcode

Today I built a system to read a markdown file from one location in my Hugo project into another.

It has two parts, a shortcode that reads an argument and parses it as markdown:

<!-- layouts/shortcodes/include-markdown.html -->
{{ readFile (.Get 0) | markdownify }}

And using that shortcode:

<!-- about.md -->

{{< include-markdown "doc/about-content.md" >}}

This lets me put a file into docs/ and read it into my template, a handy way to reduce duplication in my app.

• Get – Hugo docs
• markdownify – Hugo docs
• readFile – Hugo docs