Are you looking for ways to customize how Markdown links are rendered in Hugo? Maybe you want to add link icons? Or, how about add support for internal cross reference without using (the old method) {{< ref >}}?

Hugo has a feature called Markdown render hooks which allow custom templates to override markdown rendering functionality ¹. It currently supports four, commonly requested, Markdown rendering areas:

• codeblock
• heading
• image
• link

Here are various ways to customize how Markdown links in Hugo can be rendered.