docs/themes/learn/exampleSite/content/shortcodes/_index.en.md

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2016-04-09T16:50:16+02:00	Shortcodes	<b>3. </b>	15

Hugo uses Markdown for its simple content format. However, there are a lot of things that Markdown doesn’t support well. You could use pure HTML to expand possibilities.

But this happens to be a bad idea. Everyone uses Markdown because it's pure and simple to read even non-rendered. You should avoid HTML to keep it as simple as possible.

To avoid this limitations, Hugo created shortcodes. A shortcode is a simple snippet inside a page.

Hugo-theme-learn provides multiple shortcodes on top of existing ones.

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