As a new user it is so hard to understand and trace issues with base template order. It is a blackbox.
I have a section called pages and a page called about.md
/content/pages/about.md
I have tried numerous attempts at following the order precedence detailed here
I have tried
/themes/mytheme/layouts/section/pages-baseof.html
/themes/mytheme/layouts/pages/baseof.html
/themes/mytheme/layouts/section/baseof.html
/themes/mytheme/layouts/_default/pages-baseof.html
None are ever applied and it always falls back to
/themes/mytheme/layouts/_default/baseof.html
It would really help if there could be some verbose output, something like:
…checking for base template /layouts/section/pages-baseof.html…not found
…checking for base template /themes/mytheme/layouts/section/posts-baseof.html…not found
…checking for base template /layouts/posts/baseof.html…not found
[etc]
…checking for base template /themes/mytheme/layouts/_default/baseof.html…found!