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1

Hi all,

I understand Page.URL will soon no longer be supported. I’ve never used Permalinks and I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around that. I have read the documentation but it is still very unclear.

Do I have to write something like this for every link to another page on my website? Doesn’t look like economical code writing.

 {{ range .Site.Pages }}
      {{ if eq .Title "Syllabus" }}
           <a href="{{ .RelPermalink }} ">SYLLABUS</a>
      {{end}}
 {{end}}

I cannot find online explanations of the basic concept.

Thanks for any piece of advice.
Steph

2

What are you trying to do with the above? A menu? A cross page reference?

The .Permalink and .RelPermalink variables just hold the absolute and relative URL to a content page (in this instance).

Typically within a range statement one would just need to wirte something like:

 {{ range .Site.Pages }}
           <a href="{{ .RelPermalink }} ">{{ .Title }}</a>
 {{end}}
3

Hi Alexandros,

I’m only trying to insert a link to the page syllabus.html. It’s not a menu, it’s just one signe link to a specific page, a cross page reference, yes. If I write what you suggest I will get a list of links for all the pages on my site, right?

I’m used to writing:

 <a href="/content/syllabus.html ">SYLLABUS</a>

I’ve been managing things like that with Jekyll so far. It is working fine at the moment but from what I understand it is not viable since Hugo will stop supporting Page.url.

Again, I have read the doc and there are loads of things that are above my level of understanding ! I’m trying to find the right tutorial for me. :wink:

4

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what this means.

No.

This will continue to work as it always has. This has no relation to the deprecation of .Page.URL.

5

You’re right. I’m out of my depth.
Thanks for your answer.
Steph