Additional Pages

Hextra includes additional pages that you can enable explicitly: glossary and archives.

Glossary

Source Data File

Term definitions are centrally stored in a termbase.yaml data file for each supported language.

Each YAML data file contains a list of glossary entries. Every entry includes:

• term: The full name of the concept or phrase.
• definition: A brief explanation or description of the term.
• abbr (optional): A commonly used abbreviation or acronym for the term.

- term: seo
  abbr: SEO
  definition: "Search engine optimization – improving the visibility of a web page in search engines"
- term: static site generator
  definition: "Software engines processing text input to generate static web pages"

Glossary Page

To render the glossary index page (listing all defined terms along with their descriptions and abbreviations), a language-specific glossary content file must be defined for each supported language. Use the language code suffix in the filename, for example content/glossary/_index.en.md.

---
title: Glossary
layout: glossary
---

An example glossary page is available at Glossary.

Archives

You can create an archive timeline page (grouped by year) for posts in a section.

1. Create the archive page:
   content/archives/_index.md

   ---
   title: Archives
   layout: archives
   toc: false
   ---
2. (Optional) Add it to the top menu:
   hugo.yaml

   menu:
     main:
       - identifier: archives
         name: Archives
         pageRef: /archives
3. (Optional, multilingual) Add translated archive index pages with the same layout, for example:
   • content/archives/_index.fa.md
   • content/archives/_index.ja.md
   • content/archives/_index.zh-cn.md
4. (Optional) Change the content section used for archives. The default is blog.
   hugo.yaml

   params:
     archives:
       section: blog
5. (Optional) Change the archive item date format. The default is Jan 02.
   hugo.yaml

   params:
     archives:
       dateFormat: "Jan 02"

The empty-state message uses the noResultsFound i18n key.

An example archive page is available at Archives.