My articles’s front matter may contain categories with names such as “A & B”: categories: ["A & B", "C"] Which causes Hugo to create folders with double dashes: public/categories/a--b This behavior is not present if the categories contain spaces or dashes: categories: ["A B"] public/categories…

You cannot change the logical path. If you could change it the way you want to, it would collide with your other examples (“A B”, “A-B”).

Interesting. Is there any way to convert it to use “and” then? Such that “A & B” would become “a-and-b”?

[image] jmooring: You cannot change the logical path guess that means No

Does that mean there is no way to use an ampersand in a category? Or how would you create links to these categories when urlize creates a-b but the actual file is at a--b? I hadn’t seen this topic and asked something similar with code examples here: Ampersand in taxonomy term - #3 by dominik.mayer

[image] dominik.mayer: Does that mean there is no way to use an ampersand in a category? No. [image] dominik.mayer: Or how would you create links In what context? Can you provide an example?

Yeah, you don’t want to do it that way. It’s fragile on a number of fronts. https://gohugo.io/methods/page/getterms

Categories with '&' chars being converted to folders and links with double dashes. How to fix it?

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dominik.mayer April 3, 2025, 12:50pm 7

Yes, the whole example is here: Ampersand in taxonomy term.

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