How do I add a form at the end of each post?

[Jarmos-san]

I've organized my blog posts under content/posts which are distinct & different from the other pages under content/. How do I configure Hugo to add a form only to the those files generated from under content/posts?

I tried adding my own customized single.html under layouts/_default but it adds the form to all the contents under content/ (except the archive.md which is great). Here's the file tree of the contents directory.

content/
| - posts/
|    | - article-1.md
|    | - ...
|    | - article-n.md
| - about.md
| - archives.md
| - projects.md
| - services.md
| - sponsorship.md

All I want is, for Hugo to append the form to the contents under content/posts i.e article-1.md to article-n.md leaving the all the other files under content/ as is after the HTML files are generated.

[kdkasad]

Option 1

In single.html, you could try something like the following:

{{- if (eq .Type "posts") -}}
{{ partial "form.html" . }}
{{/* or include HTML for the form here */}}
{{- end -}}

Option 2

Or, what I would recommend, is using a custom param to handle this:

{{- if .Param "enableForm" -}}
{{ partial "form.html" . }}
{{/* or include HTML for the form here */}}
{{- end -}}

Then you'd add the following to each page's front matter:

enableForm: true

[Jarmos-san]

Alright, your advices are pretty spot on! But here're some inconsistencies I observed.

• I prefer option 2 as well since it lets me configure the site through configuration variables. But it doesn't work as expected. The form still shows up on the pages, it's not supposed to.
• Option 1 works flawlessly.

So, to add a form only to the blog posts that are under content/posts creating a div in the single.html file with the code from option 1 should be to go-to workaround.

[kdkasad]

• I prefer option 2 as well since it lets me configure the site through configuration variables. But it doesn't work as expected. The form still shows up on the pages, it's not supposed to.

That's weird. I'm not sure why that happens. But since Option 1 works for you, I don't feel like figuring out why.

[Jarmos-san]

But since Option 1 works for you, I don't feel like figuring out why.

True! 😆

Regardless, cheers for the heads up. Really appreciate all the help.