Do index.md inherit type that matches the root section name?

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Hi

I have this content:

content/about/index.it.md
content/about/index.en.md

Which I want to use with this layout:

/theme/my-theme/layouts/about/single.html

Assuming this:
https://gohugo.io/content-management/sections/#content-section-vs-content-type

I suppose about/index.it.md will use about as type by default

How can I do it without setting type: about on the pages Front Matter?

2

about is a leaf bundle at the root of the site. It is not a section. Its .Type defaults to page.

3

Thanks for your help

I linked the wrong documentation, this is the part that made me think that the type of index.md is sets by default to about: https://gohugo.io/content-management/types/

Also I found an issue on Github, someone someone with similar thought:
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5714

The basic idea is to create the same folder structure as content inside the layout folder

Found another topic about this: here

Setting type in front matter seems the only solution

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Because its .Type is page, the lookup order is:

  1. layouts/page/single.html
  2. layouts/_default/single.html

If you place layout = "about" in front matter, the lookup order will be:

  1. layouts/page/about.html
  2. layouts/_default/about.html
  3. layouts/page/single.html
  4. layouts/_default/single.html