Index.md not able to link to other files in subdirectory

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Hey there

I’m fairly new to Hugo and so far it feels like i tried everything to work around this issue but I couldn’t find anything about this specific topic.

I’m using the mainroad theme, Hugo v0.120.4 and trying to make the site multilingual.

My folder structure therefore looks something like this:

-content
– de
—_index.md
— photos
----photos.md
— about_us
---- info.md
---- people.md
---- index.md
– en

My goal was that the menu bar doesn’t get too clustered and sites from the about_us directory will only get shown through the index.md file, which shows up in the menu bar. The problem is sites from this sub-directory don’t get rendered and so not recognized by the index.md file or by linking to them. As far as I’ve read is that it should be an _index.md file, in my case this broke the site completely.

The frontmatter part for the people.md, for example, looks like this:

---
title: "People"
sidebar: true
menu: 
    main:
        parent: about_us
---

the one for index.md like this:

+++
title = 'about_us'
draft = false
[menu] 
    [menu.main]
        pre = '<i class="fa-solid fa-code"></i>'
        weight = 2
+++

The index.md files gets rendered but doesn’t recognize any sites in the same directory.
I’m really happy for any help, i have the feeling that i missed something basic completely. :sweat_smile:

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I think you mean “pages from the about_us directory”

I think you mean “pages from this sub-directory”

I think you mean “any pages in the same directory”

Your content structure should be something like this:

content/
└── de/
    ├── about_us/
    │   ├── _index.md   <-- _INDEX.MD NOT INDEX.MD
    │   ├── info.md
    │   └── people.md
    ├── _index.md
    └── photos.md

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Hello
I’m really sorry but it seems it was a naming issue. I didn’t realize the parent node had to be the same case letters as the title given in the _index.md file and not the folder name.

I realized it while creating a dummy-repo.

Thank you very much for trying to help me!