Create two versions of the site

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I am using hugo to create the developer documentation for a project. I would like to have two version of the compiled site:

  1. One that shows everything.
  2. One that only shows the user relevant pages.

Is it possible to use a switch to generate the two versions?

2

If you could split your presentation layer (files that display the content) across multiple themes you could generate the output in two different directories from these two different themes.

3

This could work, just as writing a script to copy the entire project except the files that i don’t want to be shown to users. But I am looking for a more “clean” way to do this

4

Also not clean, but I would simply create two projects and link the content files from the user documentation into the content folder of the developer documentation with ln -s.

juh

5

I was first thinking that it would be nice to have different switches (in a #def #undef manner) but you are right, it will just make everything way too complicated.
I’ll create two project and link the content (with the equivalent of ln -s for windows)

6

In my head*

  • You need to mark the content somehow, i.e. a page param: user_relevant
  • Add a environment flag to switch these in the where clause(s)
  • Add this config option / environment to the command line when building: env BUILDALL=true hugo

See

Here I add an environment var to Circle CI so I only add the GA code when deploying to the real site.