# Can default taxonomy destinations be disabled?

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/can-default-taxonomy-destinations-be-disabled/50326>\
**Category:** support\
**Tags:** taxonomy\
**Created:** [June 17, 2024, 6:25am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/can-default-taxonomy-destinations-be-disabled/50326 "2024-06-17T06:25:02Z")\
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In your site configuration, this will allow you to access term metadata, but Hugo will not render the authors taxonomy or term pages:

```plaintext
[[cascade]]
[cascade.build]
render = 'never'
[cascade._target]
path = '{/authors,/authors/**}'

```

After doing the above you can still access term metadata with something like this:

```plaintext
{{ with site.Taxonomies.authors.Get "author-a" }}
  Name: {{ .Page.Title }}<br>
  Email: {{ .Page.Params.email }}<br>
{{ end }}

```

Or this:

```plaintext
{{ with site.GetPage (printf "/authors/author-a") }}
  Name: {{ .Title }}<br>
  Email: {{ .Params.email }}<br>
{{ end }}

```

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