Proper content structure or how to stop render of excess pages?

[bublick]

I have complex pages, with content:

–about/
–/--_index.md
–/--a.md
–/--a2.md
–/--…md

And layout like:
–layouts/
–/--about/
–/--/list.html

I’ve found that Hugo generate html page for index, a, a2 and every section of this page. This is ok, I red articles and got this, but I still can’t get the way how this should be. My list layout works with

{{ $pages := .Pages }}
{{ $pages := sort $pages ".Params.weight" }}
{{ range $pages }}
   {{.}}
{{ end }}

Is there more elegant solution for this with fixing my issue?

[onedrawingperday]

I don’t quite understand your issue, but please have a look at filtering and limiting lists in the Docs.

[bublick]

The main issue is related with excess of rendered .html files. After hugo render in my about folder I have index.html, a folder, a2 folder and etc. I need only about/index.html and that’s why I started to try re-organize content/layouts

[bublick]

So, I would like to render only list page and ignore render of single pages for this layout

[onedrawingperday]

The only way to achieve what you want would be to reorganize your content files into a leaf Page Bundle.

└── content
    └── about
        └── index.md
        └── a.md
        └── a2.md

With the above structure a.md, a2.md etc will not be permalinkable and will only be accessible as Page Resources of /about/.

Then in a single page template you can render these pages like so:

{{- with .Resources.ByType "page" -}}
{{- range . -}} 
{{- .Content -}}
{{- end -}}
{{- end -}}

Further reading:

Page Bundles

Page Resources