Set page build options (publishResources) in the site (or theme) configuration?

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Short version:

Can I set “built:publishResources” to false for an entire site (in hugo.toml / config.toml)?

Long version:

For my site, I need every page to have

build:
    publishResources: false

in its front matter. I would have thought I could have achieved this by placing:

[build]
    publishResources = false

into config.toml (or hugo.toml for sites with updated naming). but alas, it doesn’t work.

Is there something else I can do to get this behavior? (or is there something I am doing wrong)

I assume that once I can make this work in the site config file, I can put it into the theme config file. Indeed, one of my experiments was to try:

[build]
    _merge = "deep"
    publishResources = false

into hugo.toml in my theme

One workaround (based on Build options not working - #3 by jmooring ) is to put something into the _index for the site root:

cascade:
  build:
    publishResources: false

This seems to work, but I would prefer to be able to address in the configuration file.

Thanks in advance!

2

no, build options are front matter keys.

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3

You can Cascade down from the site configuration.

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4

Hmmm. This sounds promising. Is there something that explains it?

I tried:

[[cascade]]
    [build]
        publishResources = false

in my config file, but it didn’t seem to work.

Thanks!

5

The TOML needs to look like this:

[[cascade]]
  [cascade.build]
    publishResources = false

In YAML like this:

cascade:
  - build:
      publishResources: true
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This is great! Thank you.

It works great in the site configuration!

I would like to make it work in the theme configuration. (which is still a mystery to me). I wonder if this is a “_merge” issue ( Introduction ) - or is it that there is something that means that I cannot do this in a theme configuration.

Ideally, I would be able to set this in the theme, and not have to modify each site. But that might be asking for too much…

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In your project config, you can do this:

[cascade]
_merge = 'deep'

But only if the cascade config is a single map instead of a slice of maps. See https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/13869.

That means your theme config needs to look like this:

[cascade.build]
  publishResources = false

Instead of this:

[[cascade]]
[cascade.build]
  publishResources = false