I have a file under ‘cars’ in a subfolder ‘mercedes’, called ‘300-sl.md’. The path to the file is ‘/content/cars/mercedes/300-sl.md’. I would like the permalink to be: ‘/autos/mercedes/300-sl/’. I want the following configuration: permalinks: cars: autos/:filename but this gives me the permalin…

Did you read the documentation? https://gohugo.io/content-management/urls/#permalinks :sections the content’s sections hierarchy. New in v0.83.0 Since Hugo 0.83 you can use a selection of the sections using slice syntax : :sections[1:] includes all but the first, :sections[:last] includes all bu…

Add to the frontmatter in 300-sl.md: url: /autos/mercedes/300-sl check out the docs for slug (the last part of the url) and url (the full url of a page).

@davidsneighbour Thank you! Your solution works, but it means I have to add the url to each file. I would rather automatically read the path the file is already on. Is that also possible? Thank you in advance.

If you create an _index.md file in each subsection… content/cars/ ├── bmw/ │ ├── 740i.md │ ├── 760i.md │ └── _index.md └── mercedes/ ├── 300-sl.md ├── s580.md └── _index.md …you can do this in your site configuration: [permalinks] cars = '/autos/:sections[1]/:slug'

@jmooring Thank you! That works for this example. However, I am after a solution that works for more than just one level, as I have created an auto-collapsing menu that works for infinite levels of content (within a section). If there is no way to reflect the directory structure in the permalink (…

Thank you for pointing me to that. This hack/workaround solves the problem for most users/use cases. I still think Hugo should have a setting that enables you to mimic the default behaviour.

[image] jhvanderschee: hack/workaround This is neither a “hack” nor a “workaround.” It is a “capability” or “feature.” Words matter.

The problem is that (when defined in the config): there is no way to reflect the directory structure in the permalink In my opinion using subsections IS a workaround for this problem, as a subsection is not the same as a directory structure (from what I have understood). I have understood it to …

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