Link To Static Files

(Examples use a file at /static/path/to/image.jpg)

There’s a limitation with the way links are created in markdown. In order to link to static files in content files, we need to either:

1. Write a path relative to the current directory, with ../ and the like, so a file at content/section/subsection/page.md would need ../../../path/to/image.jpg

2. Prefix the path with a leading /, which causes the path to resolve to example.com/path/to/image.jpg

The first is a pain to have to do, and the second only works if the baseURL of your Hugo site is example.com. A site at example.com/subdir/ will still resolve the link to example.com/path/to/image.jpg, which won’t exist.

To get around this limitation (at least until it gets implemented in Hugo), BluestNight includes a shortcode called static that will correctly resolve links to static files according to the site’s baseURL. The syntax is similar to the ref and relref shortcodes:

![Image alt text]({{< static "path/under/static/folder/file.jpg" >}})
[Link text]({{< static "other/static/folder/file.txt" >}})

Example output, using a baseURL of http://example.com/subdir/: