I’m trying to create different “page.html” templates for different sections. Starting with my about page, I added {“layout”: “about”,…}and then created a subdirectory in my layouts folder layouts/page/about.htmlwhich worked fine. Then I added {“layout”: “event”, …}to the bulk of the content files …

Just a general comment: I have seen many (and built some) Hugo sites; and I have always thought of the layout front matter as something you would use for the the rare cases where you wanted something very different. One of the most frequent questions about this before v0.146 was about how to style…

[image] roblaing: and then created a subdirectory in my layouts folder layouts/page/about.htmlwhich worked fine. That was deprecated in Hugo v.0.146.0 [image] Possible bug: Single layout for pages in v0.147.9 support The layouts/page construct, where “pa…

My interpretation of the documentation is layouts/about/page.html and layouts/event/page.html should do what I want, but they don’t.

There’s no relation between layout front matter and sub directories. That value maps to the first identifier in a layout file’s name, e.g. mylayout in mylayout.html.

For the site I’m building now, there aren’t many different page layouts, so layouts/event.html with corresponding {“layout”: “event”,…} in the frontmatter content/whatever-section/whatever-page/index.mdworks fine. But for a more complex site needing a wide variety of page templates, some illustrati…

[image] roblaing: some illustrative examples on how to use page paths would be nice. [image] Path Returns the logical path of the given page. [image] New template system in Hugo v0.146.0 Overview of the new template system in Hugo v0.146.0. …

How does fronmatter property "layout" relate to layouts subdirectories?

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tyco August 3, 2025, 11:58am 2

That was deprecated in Hugo v.0.146.0

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How does fronmatter property "layout" relate to layouts subdirectories?

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