How to assign a specific template to article.md files?

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I’m using someone’s template to build a hugo site. I’ve started with it and then I change it significantly. I think the author is a very advanced developer, but I can not understand some of his decisions. Thus, apart from having layouts/partials directory, he created layouts/_default directory and had put some templates there. The most used template is single.html, that renders all content/productdescription.md files.

The thing is, that besides content/productdescription.md files, I want to have some content/article.md files. My problem is, that all content/*.md files trigger launch of layouts/_default/single.html template - which is intended for products, not articles. Hence an error message immediately is thrown: “Price value is nil!” But articles are not supposed to have prices.

How I can assign content/article.md files to use not layouts/_default/single.html, but another template - e.g. layouts/partials/article.html? There should be some config somewhere - I can’t find it.

I tried using

---
title:
id: article
---

in frontmatter - but surprisingly it did not work.

The author uses other templates, but to make them work he uses a separate folder per each template and the data is loaded from .Site.Data folder. E.g. for FAQ article he uses layouts/faq/list.html template, and the data is loaded from /data/faq.yml file. Thus it requires a separate template per each article and creates too many folders.

I want to have my articles in content/articles.md files and have a single template for them in layouts/partials.
I would be very grateful if someone can tell me how to do that!

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Here is an example:
At content/myarticle.md:

---
title: My Article
type: articles
---

At layouts/articles/single.html :

    <h1> Hello from article.html! </h1>

When you render everything you’ll see that line in public/myarticle/index.html

There are some rules that determine what template will be rendered where, which is worth reading. I just gave you one out of many possible answers, so find what is more convenient to you.

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That being said, I believe that you’ll find this more convenient:

  • Save all the articles in the content/articles (content/articles/article1.md, content/articles/article2.md, etc)
  • Write the template in layouts/articles/single.html

The template is applied directly without having to specify type: articles in the front matter

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No, it does not work. Error message:

Failed to render pages: render of "page" failed: "/.../layouts/_default/single.html:266:9": execute of template failed: template: _default/single.html:266:9: executing "main" at <index .Site.Data.prices .Params.supplier>: error calling index: value is nil; should be of type string

---
title: My Article
type: articles
---

/layouts/articles/list.html
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The template should be at

/layouts/articles/single.html

instead of

/layouts/articles/list.html

Otherwise the default kicks in. Did that work?

Edit: The error is throwing is unrelated to the discussion I think. It says something about a .Params.supplier not being defined. I don’t know the internals of your project, so I don’t know exactly which parameters you need to define in your front matter to make it work.

Care to share the complete code, if it doesn’t have any sensitive information?

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Thank you, I’ve found the solution.

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