# HUGO only uses default templates, no other

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-only-uses-default-templates-no-other/5454>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [February 14, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-only-uses-default-templates-no-other/5454 "2017-02-14T18:14:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![totoff](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/totoff/32/2286_2.png) [@totoff](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/totoff)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-only-uses-default-templates-no-other/5454/1 "2017-02-14T18:14:36Z")

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Hello all,

I’ve searched the forums and found similar topics, but none has answered my question. Im trying to make HUGO use other than the default templates as [outlined in the docs.](https://gohugo.io/templates/list/#section-lists). But no luck, it always falls back to \_default/list.html and \_default/single.html ignoring any other template files.

Here is my tree:

content  
├── leistungen  
│ ├── \_index.md  
│ ├── [page-1.md](http://page-1.md)  
│ ├── [page-2.md](http://page-2.md)  
│ └── [page-3.md](http://page-3.md)

layouts  
├── \_default  
│ ├── leistungen.html  
│ ├── list.html  
│ └── single.html  
├── index.html

In this particular case I’m trying to render [myurl.com/leistungen](http://myurl.com/leistungen) with template leistungen.html but list.html is used instead.

I’ve gone through it several times trying to debug but can’t find out what I’m doing wrong here. Thanks for your help.

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**Author:** ![budparr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/budparr/32/749_2.png) [@budparr](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/budparr)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-only-uses-default-templates-no-other/5454/2 "2017-02-14T21:39:29Z")

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I’m a bit of a noob to Hugo, but I think you need:

```auto
├── layouts
│ ├── leistungen
│ │ └── single.html

```

for your single pages, and

```auto
├── layouts
│ ├── section
│ │ └── leistungen.html

```

for your lists

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**Author:** ![bep](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/bep/32/3332_2.png) [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-only-uses-default-templates-no-other/5454/3 "2017-02-14T21:39:53Z")

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Your \_default/leistungen.html isn’t any of the options in the doc you linked. (it should be, and there is an open issue about it)

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**Author:** ![totoff](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/totoff/32/2286_2.png) [@totoff](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/totoff)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-only-uses-default-templates-no-other/5454/4 "2017-02-14T21:46:57Z")

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Thank you, that did the trick.

However, I misunderstood the second bullet in the docs list:

> /layouts/\_default/section.html

Thought I had to replace /section.html with my custom section name (/leistungen.html in this case).

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.