Different templates for nested sections?

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So I want to use the nested sections feature but I don’t know if it possible to do what I want with it. I want to use one template for the main _index.md and another for the nested sections _index.md. Is this possible at the moment?

|content\
|-section1\
|--subsection1\
|---_index.md <- rendered by one section template
|---sub1.md
|---sub2.md
|--_index.md <- rendered by another section template
|--other.md

Is this possible or should I just cut my losses and restructure the site?

2

Currently not possible.

3

Thank you. Then I’ll stop banging my head against the well and restructure. :slight_smile:

Thanks for the great work with Hugo.

4

I will add that this will be possible at some point, but I did not want to add some half-baked solution before I saw nested sections used in the wild. At the very least we will support the layout = somelayout in front matter for sections pretty soon …

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5

Is this in addition to:

/layouts/section/<SECTION>.html
/layouts/<SECTION>/list.html

? So like /layouts/<SECTION>/somelayout.html ? Instead of having to do type and then layout?

6

It is what I say, nothing more, nothing less.

7

Hello,

I met this exact same issue in my project and I was wondering if they were any news about that feature.

8

Not yet.

But there is a way. See:

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