Snippets

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Snippets & Includes

Snippets and includes are the main tools to organize the code of a theme. While snippets define reusable blocks of code within a template, includes allow for splitting templates into multiple files. Together they form the basis for inheritance and recursion.

Inheritance allows for extending a template by simply including it into another one and overriding only the parts that have to be different. In order to change details in a derived template, it is important to understand how snippets work and how they can be used to override parts of a template on an atomic level.

Recurisve Navigations

Navigations and menus are an essential part of any website. Automad provides convenient ways to iterate the pages of a site recursively and therefore allows for creating site trees in a few simple steps. For simple cases, the navTree function generates a complete tree in a single statement. In case you need full control over the generated markup, you can build your own tree using a recursive snippet. Conceptually, building such a tree can be divided into three steps.