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---
title: Section templates
description: Use section templates to list members of a section.
categories: [templates]
keywords: []
menu:
docs:
parent: templates
weight: 80
weight: 80
toc: true
aliases: [/templates/sections/,/templates/section-templates/]
---
## Add content and front matter to section templates
To effectively leverage section templates, you should first understand Hugo's [content organization](/content-management/organization/) and, specifically, the purpose of `_index.md` for adding content and front matter to section and other list pages.
## Section template lookup order
See [Template Lookup](/templates/lookup-order/).
## Example: creating a default section template
{{< code file=layouts/_default/section.html >}}
{{ define "main" }}
<main>
{{ .Content }}
{{ $pages := where site.RegularPages "Type" "posts" }}
{{ $paginator := .Paginate $pages }}
{{ range $paginator.Pages }}
<h2><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .LinkTitle }}</a></h2>
{{ end }}
{{ template "_internal/pagination.html" . }}
</main>
{{ end }}
{{< /code >}}
### Example: using `.Site.GetPage`
The `.Site.GetPage` example that follows assumes the following project directory structure:
```txt
.
└── content
├── blog
│ ├── _index.md <-- title: My Hugo Blog
│ ├── post-1.md
│ ├── post-2.md
│ └── post-3.md
└── events
├── event-1.md
└── event-2.md
```
`.Site.GetPage` will return `nil` if no `_index.md` page is found. Therefore, if `content/blog/_index.md` does not exist, the template will output the section name:
```go-html-template
<h1>{{ with .Site.GetPage "/blog" }}{{ .Title }}{{ end }}</h1>
```
Since `blog` has a section index page with front matter at `content/blog/_index.md`, the above code will return the following result:
```html
<h1>My Hugo Blog</h1>
```
If we try the same code with the `events` section, however, Hugo will default to the section title because there is no `content/events/_index.md` from which to pull content and front matter:
```go-html-template
<h1>{{ with .Site.GetPage "/events" }}{{ .Title }}{{ end }}</h1>
```
Which then returns the following:
```html
<h1>Events</h1>
```
[contentorg]: /content-management/organization/
[lookup]: /templates/lookup-order/
[`where`]: /functions/collections/where/
[sections]: /content-management/sections/