Within my blog.md file, I have tags listed within object. But I’m having hard time figuring out how to check if “new winners” exist within the tags and if so, to use a custom list template for that specific tag.
don’t shoot you in the back 
layout = newwinner
in frontmatter can do the trick.
create the new list template newwinner.html and put it in layouts/<section>/
section stands for your section name …
Thank you so much for your response! haha yes, I was thinking something similar after spending 2 days trying to figure this out. Yes, this sounds like the more painless way. (to create a template within layouts)
My plan was to create a new taxonomy in the admin/config and instead of having newwinner as a tag, I can add it as a new taxonomy in my blog.md.
title: ‘Todays New Winners’
date: Wed, 20 Aug 2020 18:00:53 +0000
draft: false
tags: [‘First’]
winners: "new winners"
If I kept it as a tag, I’m still confused how I could call for the template within layouts/blog/newwinner.html, if it was a tag i.e. tags: [‘New Winners’, ‘First’]. How do I actually get that template to work?
I’m assuming you’re suggesting this within my frontmatter? Will everything that is tag “new winner” have a new list page?
title: ‘Todays New Winners’
date: Wed, 20 Aug 2020 18:00:53 +0000
draft: false
tags: [‘First’]
winners: "new winners"
layout: newwinner
Thanks for your helphi,
newwinner.html is a single page.
Hugo will create the taxonomy directory /winners , you can create a special list template in layouts/winners
don’t forget to activate winners as taxonomy in config.
Compare it with my sample site https://github.com/gj52/HugoSample
I have special templates for tags and series.
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