Show content of pages on homepage without individual pages

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Hey everyone,
I’m creating a website that basically just consists of one long home page with »aspects« and »topics«. To better structure everything, I organise the content of the homepage through content files:

content
  - aspects
    - aspect1.md
    - aspect2.md
  - topics
    - topic1.md
    - topic2.md

The topics and aspects should not have their own page rendered. I only display the content by looping over site.Pages like this:

{{ range where site.Pages "Section" "topics" }}
  {{ partial "topic.html" . }}
{{ end }}

Everything is working fine except that I get the message: found no layout file for "HTML" for kind "page". I then used disableKinds = ["page"] but that results in the content also no longer displayed through site.Pages.

So my question is: How do I prevent Hugo from creating pages for every content file, while still being able to access it through site.Pages?

Thanks so much!

2

Sounds like what you need is headless bundles.

3

You can use new _build options. The Documentation also cover your case

“Listing pages without publishing them”

4

Thanks so much! I’m actually using both methods now. For aspects and topics, I decided to go for the headless bundles. Looks like excatly what I needed. Things are working as expected.

For anyone encoutering the same problem, here is what I did:

content
  - aspects
    - index.md # headless = true
    - aspect1.md
    - aspect2.md
  - topics
    - index.md # headless = true
    - topic1.md
    - topic2.md

And the looping looks like this:

{{ range (.Site.GetPage "/topics").Resources }}
  {{ partial "topic.html" . }}
{{ end }}

And since I have snippets like intro.md in the content folder, I’m using build there. I’m importing them like this:

{{ with .Site.GetPage "intro.md" }}
  {{ .Content }}
{{ end }}

Thanks so much again!