Is there a reason why list titles are pluralised by default?

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The default behavior of Hugo is to pluralize list titles; hence the inflection of the quote section to “Quotes” when called with the .Title page variable. You can change this via the pluralizeListTitles directive in your site configuration.

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Nice way of putting it – it only pluralizes english titles. Useless for any other language, and there are some .

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I always set it to false in my sites, but I have never understood the rationale behind it…

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It probably seemed like a good idea at the time—close to 10 years ago. Changing the default to false would be a breaking change.

Pluralization is performed by gobuffalo/flect, which is limited to English. This Go module is also used by these template functions:

  • inflect.Humanize
  • inflect.Singularize
  • inflect.Pluralize

If someone suggested adding this feature (and the associated template functions) today, I would vote no. Pluralization is complicated, based on language, and should be performed via Hugo’s i18n (T) template function.

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Got my answer. Thanks Joe.

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