How to assign unique partials to specific content folders in Hugo?

[V_V.C]

Hi all. I’m currently working with Hugo and would like to know the best way to use different partials for different folders nested within the /content directory. Right now, Hugo is only rendering the header.html from the layouts/partials directory. However, I’d like to use a unique header.html for a specific content folder.

[jmooring]

Partials do not have a lookup order. They are agnostic with respect to output format, page kind, page type, etc.

https://gohugo.io/templates/types/#partial

Unlike other template types, you cannot create partial templates to target a particular page kind, content type, section, language, or output format. Partial templates do not follow Hugo’s template lookup order.

[jmooring]

layouts/
├── _default/
│   ├── baseof.html
│   ├── home.html
│   ├── list.html
│   └── single.html
├── partials/
│   └── header/
│       ├── books.html
│       ├── default.html
│       └── films.html
└── shortcodes/

Then in your template do something like:

...
  <header>
    {{ $partialPath := printf "partials/header/%s.html" .Section }}
    {{ if templates.Exists $partialPath }}
      {{ partial $partialPath }}
    {{ else }}
      {{ partial "partials/header/default.html" }}
    {{ end }}
  </header>
...