Hello, please bear with me and the amount of threads I’ve made. I created a GitHub repository which is essentially a gutted version of my WIP website to demonstrate this problem I’ve been having. The link is here . As you can see, I have a “category” taxonomy and a post assigned to that taxonomy. I…

Don’t create folders with the name “categories” or “tags” if you don’t wanted unexpected results! For example, your permalinks settings in config has “categories” in it and yet you created a categories folder!

Try moving those files to the _default folder.

Alright, I updated the repository. I moved all of the files to the _default directory and renamed them, then updated the _index.md files to use the template files using the layout: variable. It mostly works as expected, but I also created a new post with a different category cat2, and the page for…

Change that list.html you had before to terms.html. So, you will have list.html, taxonomy.html (for categories/) and terms.htm (for /categories/cat/). You don’t need to set the layout property in that case. The list.html is the fall-back layout when the other two are missing.

Great! This worked! One more question: am I able to put these files into their own folder in _default? I’d like to have some organization, and the blog section will be only one part of my website; I’m planning on adding other sections with their own organization.

See the layout lookup order for taxonomy and terms . I have never used taxonomies (I only use sections on my site). I haven’t tested this, but you can try copying the three files back to the categories folder and test again. Alternatively, if your section is called blog, then create /layouts/blog and…

Actually, I lied; my problem still isn’t solved. Per this post , I tried putting all of my layouts in the _default folder and referencing them from the content’s frontmatter, but the page for each category does not seem to use the test.html layout that is referenced in their frontmatter. Also, the p…

Got it! I changed categories = 'blog/categories/:slug/' to category = 'blog/categories/:slug/' in the config and everything works perfectly! Thank you so much for your patience! Though this does seem like a quirk in Hugo; you’d expect the opposite to happen. If they don’t mention this already, mayb…

My custom list.html isn't being used?

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My custom list.html isn't being used?

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