Create a new webpage for each Taxonomy

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My website has an authors taxonomy which lists all the authors of the website. The terms page show all the posts associated with each author.
Is it possible to create a template, say profile, which should be responsible for hosting the author’s profile. The data for the profile will be fetched through a file’s frontmatter.

Is it possible to do so using Hugo?

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Yes, you can do it. I have done it for “series”.

Here is my sample to give you a starting point

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@ju52 I tried creating a template posts.html.html in layouts/authors but it didn’t work. Accessing authors/<author>/posts gives 404 error.

Here’s my posts.html.html:

{{- define "main" -}}

<div class="universal-wrapper pt-3" style="margin-bottom: 1rem;">
  <h1>{{ printf "%s / Posts" $.Data.Term }}</h1>
</div>

<div class="universal-wrapper">
  {{ range .Data.author.Pages }} 
    {{ if eq $.Params.view 1 }}
      {{ partial "li_list" . }}
    {{ else if eq $.Params.view 3 }}
      {{ partial "li_card" . }}
    {{ else }}
     {{ partial "li_compact" . }}
    {{ end }}
  {{ end }}
  {{ partial "pagination" . }}
</div>

{{- end -}}
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You must make templates under layouts/authors/

terms.html.html is a template for a list of authors
list.html.html is a template for every author

Do you have a github repo?

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Yes, this is my repo:

I already have the list and term templates there.

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Hi there,

Do you mean that you want one author to have two pages published: one with list of content tagged to that author, and a second one with their profile? Like so:

content/authors/author-one/_index.md

generates:

authors/author-one/ => list of content tagged author-one
authors/author-one-profile/ => author profile

If so you might want to have a look at custom output formats, and perhaps create a custom one.

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you should understand the template lookup order.

The template layouts/authors/post* will never used, if you don’t set layout = “post” in the author content files.

Your files under /layouts will override the files under /themes/academic/layouts

I used {{ print "<!-- Template layouts/list.html" -->" }} in my template to analyse the used templates in my generated files.

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@ju52 It seems that I hadn’t clearly explained my issue but @pointyfar guessed it correctly and his solution of using Custom Output Formats helped me.

For this, I’ve created a custom output format:

  Posts:
    baseName: posts
    mediaType: text/html
    notAlternative: true
    permalinkable: true
    isHTML: true
    noUgly: true

and I adjust the outputs slice in my author frontmatter to enable this output using layouts/authors/list.posts.html.

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