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Front Matter

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In addition to the default Hugo front matter parameters, Congo adds a number of additional options to customise the presentation of individual articles. All the available theme front matter parameters are listed below.

Front matter parameter default values are inherited from the theme’s base configuration, so you only need to specify these parameters in your front matter when you want to override the default.

Name Default Description
title Not set The name of the article.
description Not set The text description for the article. It is used in the HTML metadata.
feature "*feature*" The text pattern to match the feature image filename for this article.
featureAlt "" The alternative text description for the feature image.
cover "*cover*" The text pattern to match the cover image filename for this article.
coverAlt featureAlt The alternative text description for the cover image.
coverCaption Not set The figure caption text to be displayed beneath the cover image.
thumbnail "*thumb*"_ The text pattern to match the thumbnail image filename for this article.
thumbnailAlt featureAlt The alternative text description for the thumbnail image.
externalUrl Not set If this article is published on a third-party website, the URL to this article. Providing a URL will prevent a content page being generated and any references to this article will link directly to the third-party website.
editURL article.editURL When showEdit is active, the URL for the edit link.
editAppendPath article.editAppendPath When showEdit is active, whether or not the path to the current article should be appended to the URL set at editURL.
groupByYear list.groupByYear Whether or not articles are grouped by year on list pages.
keywords Not set Any keywords that should be included in the article metadata.
menu Not set When a value is provided, a link to this article will appear in the named menus. Valid values are main or footer.
robots Not set String that indicates how robots should handle this article. If set, it will be output in the page head. Refer to Google’s docs for valid values.
sharingLinks article.sharingLinks Which sharing links to display at the end of this article. When not provided, or set to false no links will be displayed.
showAuthor article.showAuthor Whether or not the author box is displayed in the article footer.
showBreadcrumbs article.showBreadcrumbs or list.showBreadcrumbs Whether the breadcrumbs are displayed in the article or list header.
showDate article.showDate Whether or not the article date is displayed. The date is set using the date parameter.
showDateUpdated article.showDateUpdated Whether or not the date the article was updated is displayed. The date is set using the lastmod parameter.
showEdit article.showEdit Whether or not the link to edit the article content should be displayed.
showHeadingAnchors article.showHeadingAnchors Whether or not heading anchor links are displayed alongside headings within this article.
showPagination article.showPagination Whether or not the next/previous article links are displayed in the article footer.
invertPagination article.invertPagination Whether or not to flip the direction of the next/previous article links.
showReadingTime article.showReadingTime Whether or not the article reading time is displayed.
showTaxonomies article.showTaxonomies Whether or not the taxonomies that relate to this article are displayed.
showTableOfContents article.showTableOfContents Whether or not the table of contents is displayed on this article.
showWordCount article.showWordCount Whether or not the article word count is displayed.
showComments article.showComments Whether or not the comments partial is included after the article footer.
showSummary list.showSummary Whether or not the article summary should be displayed on list pages.
summary Auto generated using summaryLength (see site configuration) When showSummary is enabled, this is the Markdown string to be used as the summary for this article.
xml true unless excluded by sitemap.excludedKinds Whether or not this article is included in the generated /sitemap.xml file.