Taxonomy list template: .Pages vs. .Data.Terms

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Trying to range over all terms in a taxonomy with a template in layouts/<taxonomy>/list.html.

  • .Data.Terms gives me an empty slice/array
  • .Pages gives me the correct list of terms

Two questions:

  • Why doesn’t .Data.Terms work here?
  • How do I get the number of entries for each term? The documentation mentions .Count(term) but how would I use that in range .Pages? Something like .Count(term) always gives me an error because of an unexpected “(” in operand.

Edit: Figured out the last one: The parentheses are misleading, one should simply put the term after Count. But the result of site.Taxonomies.<taxonomie>.Count <term> is wrong :frowning:

This part of the documentation is preciously short of examples.

2

Hi

As far as I know, .Data.Terms is used to represent all the terms of a taxonomy, which can be accessed through layouts/<taxonomy>/terms.html.

3

layouts/<taxonomy>/terms.html is at position 6 in the taxonomy list template lookup hierarchy, whereas layouts/<taxonomy>/list.html is at position 8. Perhaps that makes a difference, leading to .Data.Terms working in the first, but not in the second. But should it?

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.Data.Terms is nil when rendering a term page; it is a map when rendering a taxonomy page.

With this layout structure…

layouts/
├── _default/
│   ├── baseof.html
│   ├── home.html
│   ├── list.html
│   └── single.html
└── tags/
    └── list.html

…the layouts/tags/list.html template is used to render both taxonomy and term pages.

I am unable to reproduce the problem you’re experiencing with “an empty slice”

git clone --single-branch -b hugo-forum-topic-45919 https://github.com/jmooring/hugo-testing hugo-forum-topic-45919
cd hugo-forum-topic-45919
hugo server
5

As I am now, too. If I were inclined to believe in magic, I’d think that it suffices for you to have a look at a problem for it to go away.