Question regarding Next Prev navigation

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From what I’ve seen at the Hugo Docs repository the next and the previous url paths are specified on the front matter of each post. For example:

---
next: /extras/builders
prev: /taxonomies/ordering
title: Aliases
weight: 10
---

Is this the only way to do this? Or is there some other way to get this functionality without specifying the url paths on every post?

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There are many ways two rome.

  • .Next, .Prev
  • .NextInSection, .PrevInSection
  • And @spf13’s undocumented new feature
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An undocumented feature? Care to elaborate? Is this implemented on a website that I can look at?

I’m thinking about migrating my drawing blog to hugo and since I have some 350 posts entering those path urls manually seems like overkill.

4

The first two options is documented. Use the search on the doc site.

The last one I believe is undocumented, but if you read Go code, see this commit:

5

Theres also

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Thanks for your pointers bjornerik.

I found that the following code does what I need.
I’m posting it here just in case someone else needs it. It goes in single.html

{{ if .PrevInSection }}
<a href="{{.PrevInSection.Permalink}}">Previous Post</a>
{{ end }}
{{ if .NextInSection }}
<a href="{{.NextInSection.Permalink}}">Next Post</a>
{{ end }}
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