Support more than one custom partial for footer

[mxmehl]

Feature Description

Right now, the footer template allows to load a custom partial (layouts/_partials/custom/footer.html). This is fine for most cases, but for one edge case, I'd like to split my custom additions to the footer into two partials.

Problem/Solution

Not change the default, but allow to define a list of custom partials to be loaded in the footer section. This could be done with a site.Param.

This may lead to errors if these partials aren't present, but as it's user-configured, this wouldn't be upstream's fault.

Alternatives Considered

Deal with it 😎

Additional Context

I'd be happy to create a PR for it if @imfing would not object the general goal. Thanks for considering!

[imfing]

Hi @mxmehl thanks for the request! Before opening a PR, it would be helpful to see some example configurations or screenshots that illustrate how this feature is expected to work.

[mxmehl]

Sure, happy to provide some demo/pseudo example of how I would sketch this:

hugo.yaml:

params:
	footer:
		customPartials:
			# - `custom/footer.html`  # default
			- custom/footer-matomo.html
			- custom/footer-scripts.html

layouts/_partials/custom/footer-matomo.html (in my root dir or child theme):

<!-- Matomo -->
<script type="text/javascript">
  var _paq = window._paq = window._paq || [];
  _paq.push(['trackPageView']);
  _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']);
  (function() {
    var u="//exampke.com/";
    _paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', u+'matomo.php']);
    _paq.push(['setSiteId', 1]);
    var d=document, g=d.createElement('script'), s=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
    g.type='text/javascript'; g.async=true; g.src=u+'matomo.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s);
  })();
</script>
<!-- End Matomo Code -->

layouts/_partials/custom/footer-scripts.html may look similar.

themes/hextra/layouts/_partials/footer.html (change in this repo, pseudo):

-{{- partial "custom/footer.html" (dict "context" . "switchesVisible" $footerSwitchesVisible "copyrightVisible" $copyrightSectionVisible) -}}
+{{- range site.Params.footer.customPartials }}{{ partial . (dict "context" $. "switchesVisible" $footerSwitchesVisible "copyrightVisible" $copyrightSectionVisible) }}{{ end -}}

[imfing]

Thanks for the suggestion and for the example.

For now, I think the existing layouts/_partials/custom/footer.html hook plus Hugo’s partial API should already cover this use case:
https://gohugo.io/functions/partials/include/

So if you need to split the footer customization into multiple files, you can do that from within your own custom/footer.html and include whatever additional partials you need there.