Changing taxonomy term page title

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How can I change the title (Title variable in template) for a taxonomy term page?

I have tried with setting title in a _index.md, but I cannot get it to work.

My code is here: GitHub - mikaelstaldal/tech-blog: Mikael Ståldal's technical blog

and I want to change the title of month archive pages like /2023/10 to be something more pretty than “2023/10” as it is now.

I am trying migrate a WordPress blog to Hugo: current blog is here.

$ hugo env
hugo v0.119.0-b84644c008e0dc2c4b67bd69cccf87a41a03937e+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2023-09-24T15:20:17Z VendorInfo=snap:0.119.0
GOOS="linux"
GOARCH="amd64"
GOVERSION="go1.21.1"
github.com/sass/libsass="3.6.5"
github.com/webmproject/libwebp="v1.2.4"
github.com/sass/dart-sass/protocol="2.2.0"
github.com/sass/dart-sass/compiler="1.68.0"
github.com/sass/dart-sass/implementation="1.68.0"
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What is full path of the _index.md that you tried to create?

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/content/<TAXONOMY>/<TERM>/_index.md

like this sample

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I tried to create /content/month/2023/10/_index.md, but it does not work.

And I want to change the title of all terms in this taxonomy, so creating an _index.md for each of them would be cumbersome.

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I was inspired by this: How to Generate Chronological Blog Archives in Hugo?

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I don’t see any config files in your repo … (or I missed it?)

Looked ia a post, you should get generated directories like

public/categories/java etc…

then you need a content/categories/java/_index.md file

There is a search function for the DOCs :wink:

Read the taxonomy template doc … can help to understand Hugo better

HTH

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Here is the config file: https://github.com/mikaelstaldal/tech-blog/blob/main/hugo.yaml

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You need to override the Ananke theme’s site-header partial.

mkdir layouts/partials
cp themes/ananke/layouts/partials/site-header.html layouts/partials/

Then replace this:

{{ .Title | default .Site.Title }}

With something like:

{{ $title := or .Title .Site.Title }}
{{ if and (eq .Kind "term") (eq .Data.Singular "month") }}
  {{ $y := index (split .Data.Term "/") 0 }}
  {{ $m := index (split .Data.Term "/") 1 }}
  {{ $t := time.AsTime (printf "%s-%s-01" $y $m) }}
  {{ $title = time.Format "Articles from Jan 2006" $t }}
{{ end }}
{{ $title }}

In the above, since $t is a time.Time value, you can use whatever format string you’d like.

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Thanks, that works.

Would be nice to be able to override what title is passed to the theme’s template though, but maybe that’s not possible?

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In this case, it’s not possible.

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I am open to suggestion on better ways to achieve WordPress compatible monthly archives.

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Can the published page exist only at:

https://example.org/foo/yyyy/mm/dd/title

Or do you also need:

https://example.org/foo/title

To forward to:

https://example.org/foo/yyyy/mm/dd/title

And if it forwards, which of the two URLs is canonical? I assume the latter.

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I only need https://example.org/foo/yyyy/mm/dd/title, https://example.org/foo/title is not necessary.

(It seems like I only have https://example.org/foo/yyyy/mm/dd/title in my current Hugo setup.)

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