> With Jekyll I can write "_plugins/foo.rb" and put any code in there to add new Liquid template tags To be fair, Hugo's shortcodes are similar to this without

> With Jekyll I can write "_plugins/foo.rb" and put any code in there to add new Liquid template tags To be fair, Hugo's shortcodes are similar to this without requiring a plugin. And with render hooks and `.Scratch` to temporarily store information, it gets you a long way. It takes some time and experimentation to understand these abilities, however, and the documentation is not always helpful, to say the least.