I am in process of creating 2 sites with hugo, one is around 120k pages and the other far exceeds this. Running already into issues on the build process on my M1 mac laptop. 80k pages minified was too much on it. It would be great to hear from my Hugo developers on ways Hugo allows for scaling for…

Wow not sure how I missed this documentation page! So if I am seeing this correctly I could split up the content data into segments by folder so all files in a specific folder would be written. [[segments.segment1.includes]] path = '{/docs,/questions/**}' so for instance this above segme…

I also found out that hugo --minify is quite server intensive, running just hugo takes much less resources with lots of pages, I think minification takes 2-4 mins longer. One solution I am thinking is to run npx html-minifier-terser --input-dir public --output-dir public --collapse-whitespace -…

[image] Qeeebo: Can you elaborate abit on this. To familiarize yourself with this feature, I suggest creating a small test site and running some experiments. You can build a functional test site with: hugo new theme my-site --themesDir . The syntax above is a bit strange, but it works.

[image] Qeeebo: Do you have to state all the exclusions or can you just call for that one folder? If this folder is processed with MD files would hugo also update taxonomy? The --renderSegments flag is just about RENDERING, you will still have up to date access to all meta data for all files …

[image] bep: In my experience, for big sites, the rendering is what takes the bulk of time/memory. So if you have a way of partition old/static content with paths, that would be a great remedy. What I am doing is just bulking content into build folders and running them ie 1-20k md files per f…

What I tried was in the front matter to specify a folder in the topics ie /de/: --- title: "academian, what does it mean?" summary: "An academian is a member of an academy, often a scholar or intellectual. The term can also refer to someone associated with academic or scholarly pursuits." date: 202…

if topics is a taxonomy and de/Definition a term… a slash in a tag name might be not the best idea. see Slash in tag name if it’s not the above and your json has two identical links for two different pages, … maybe a problem with your site data or templates: use --printPathWarnings to identify dup…

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