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+aliases:
+- /doc/templates/
+- /layout/templates/
+- /layout/overview/
+lastmod: 2015-05-22
+date: 2013-07-01
+linktitle: Overview
+menu:
+  main:
+    parent: layout
+next: /templates/go-templates
+prev: /themes/creation
+title: Hugo Templates
+weight: 10
+toc: true
+---
+
+Hugo uses the excellent Go html/template library for its template engine.
+It is an extremely lightweight engine that provides a very small amount of
+logic. In our experience it is just the right amount of logic to be able
+to create a good static website.
+
+While Hugo has a number of different template roles, most complete
+websites can be built using just a small number of template files.
+Please don’t be afraid of the variety of different template roles. They
+enable Hugo to build very complicated sites. Most sites will only
+need to create a [/layouts/\_default/single.html](/templates/content/) & [/layouts/\_default/list.html](/templates/list/)
+
+If you are new to Go's templates, the [Go Template Primer](/layout/go-templates/)
+is a great place to start.
+
+If you are familiar with Go’s templates, Hugo provides some [additional
+template functions](/templates/functions/) and [variables](/templates/variables/) you will want to be familiar
+with.
+
+## Primary Template roles
+
+There are 3 primary kinds of templates that Hugo works with.
+
+### [Single](/templates/content/)
+Render a single piece of content
+
+### [List](/templates/list/)
+Page that list multiple pieces of content
+
+### [Homepage](/templates/homepage/)
+The homepage of your site
+
+## Supporting Template Roles (optional)
+
+Hugo also has additional kinds of templates all of which are optional
+
+### [Partial Templates](/templates/partials/)
+Common page parts to be included in the above mentioned templates
+
+### [Content Views](/templates/views/)
+Different ways of rendering a (single) content type
+
+### [Taxonomy Terms](/templates/terms/)
+A list of the terms used for a specific taxonomy, e.g. a Tag cloud
+
+## Other Templates (generally unnecessary)
+
+### [RSS](/templates/rss/)
+Used to render all rss documents
+
+### [Sitemap](/templates/sitemap/)
+Used to render the XML sitemap
+
+### [404](/templates/404/)
+This template will create a 404.html page used when hosting on GitHub Pages
+
+### [Alias](/extras/aliases/#customizing)
+This template will override the default page used to create aliases of pages.
+