Creating a Layout for Content with multiple Subfolders?

Okay it seems like I get closer to a solution for the first problem. Here’s what to do

  1. Write sth. like posts: /:title or posts: /:slug into your config.yaml file.
  2. In the Layouts folder rename the respective list.html to empty.html
  3. Add this code into the empty.html file
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/404/" />
  </head>
</html>
  1. In content/posts (or your first section) create an “index.md” File (NOT _index.md).
  2. In this index.md file set “Layout: empty” and “headless: true”.

(I got the infos from here: How to disable section but child are accessible? - #5 by Marek_Lichtner )

Update: I added this to my _index.md file in the Author subdirectory. Now the Author List page is rendering:

_build:
  list: true
  render: true