How to deal with thousands of index.md files (lots of page bundles)

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hi
i edit the content of my site with obsidian or VSCode
the problem is that i have thousands of page bundles… and all these pages are “index.md” or “_index.md”
its not that wonderful setup to search and manage all the knowledge base if all files are named the same.

i was thinking: and if Hugo could be configured to read files named like its containing folder like it was an index?:

“/my-page/my-page.md” like it was “/my-page/index.md”
“/my-page/_my-page.md” like it was “/my-page/_index.md”

wouldn’t it be fantastic?

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Yeah that would be great. Except, it IS that great already.

my-page/my-page.md

---
url: /my-page/
---

Does the trick. You need to know, that doing it that way you will switch to my-page.md being a single page, so the single layout will catch the content. If you want to change content you can use the layout frontmatter and put a layout with that name into layouts/_default/layoutname.html.

For deeper nested structures look at slug, that will change only the last part of the URL.

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thank you David
i use slug a lot, already. i’ll give a try with the url rewriting

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If you do this:

content/
└── post
    └── post-1
        ├── b.jpg
        └── post-1.md

and this:

+++
title = "Post 1"
date = 2021-04-04T21:21:34-07:00
draft = false
url = "/post/post-1/"
+++
This is content/post/post-1/post-1.md

Then as davidsneighbour describes, you will be able to visit the page at http://localhost:1313/post/post-1/.

However, the template(s) used to render the page will not be able to access b.jpg as a page resource using .ResourcesGet or .Resources.GetMatch. Page resources are only available to page bundles, and page bundles are those directories with either index.md or _index.md files at their root.

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that’s the problem… i have tons of page bundles (posts, projects , tutorials) and i want to keep media without touching the templates…
if Hugo could think that “files named as containing directory” were index.md it would be much easier

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