Directory to group content files without influence on without creating influence on url sections etc

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What is the simplest way to use folders to group content files without changing the url or section tree ? Like a leaf bundle, but simpler, hugo would just flatten the directory. I won’t use leaf bundle because I need my files to bear their name, “index” is a no-go.
What I mean:

.
├── archives
│ ├── au-delà-de-l-œdipe.css
│ ├── au-delà-de-l-œdipe.en.html
│ └── au-delà-de-l-œdipe.html
├── auteur.en.md
├── auteur.md
├── essai
│ └── a.md
├── _index.en.md
└── _index.md

it should read three as if the content was of “essai” was raised one level.

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If I got it right you can configure a combination of cascade and permalinks in your hugo.toml to achieve that:

  • do not render the section page for /essai/
  • render all pages below /essai/ to the Root
    /essai/a.md is rendered to /a/index.html and linked as /a/ (unless you have uglyUrls set to true)
# suppress render of  the grouping folder"
[[cascade]]
   [cascade.build]
      render = "never"
   [cascade.target]
      path = "{/essai}"

# redirect the urls for grouping folder content
[[permalinks]]
   pattern = '/:slugorcontentbasename'
   [permalinks.target]
      path = '{/essai/**}'

you can tweak the filename, targets, … see:

hint: use --printPathWarnings to check for duplicates

3

Thought of that… but I was looking for a simpler way.