Frontmatter

Frontmatter is a block of metadata at the top of a Markdown file, delimited by --- lines. Hunim reads this metadata to set the page title, choose a template, generate meta tags, and control build behavior.

Syntax

---
title: My Page Title
author: Jane Doe
date: Mon, 19 Nov 2024 12:00:00 PST
desc: A short description of this page.
template: custom.html
draft: false
type: feed
---

# Page content starts here

Fields

Field	Description
`title`	Page title. Used as `{{ .Title }}` in templates and in `<title>` and `og:title` meta tags.
`author`	Author name. Available as `{{ .Author }}` in templates.
`date`	Publication date in RFC 2822 format. Available as `{{ .Date }}` (formatted as `Month DD, YYYY`).
`desc`	Short description. Injected as a `<meta name="description">` and `og:description` tag via . Use the special value `no-index` to prevent the page from appearing in the sitemap.
`template`	Name of the template file to use (e.g. `wide.html`). Defaults to `default.html`.
`draft`	Set to `true` to exclude the page from normal builds. Included when using `--buildDrafts`.
`type`	Set to `feed` on a directory's `index.md` to enable the blog feed system. See Feeds.

Date format

Dates follow RFC 2822. Common timezone abbreviations are supported:

Mon, 19 Nov 2024 12:00:00 PST
Tue, 01 Jan 2025 09:00:00 UTC
Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:30:00 EDT

The date is rendered in the template as a human-readable string, e.g. November 19, 2024.

The `no-index` descriptor

Set desc: no-index to exclude a page from the generated sitemap.xml and add a <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag:

---
title: Draft Preview
desc: no-index
---

Omitting frontmatter