I have been working on the Nederburg for a while and finally have time to resolve some outstanding issues. At the same time I am trying to learn more about Hugo. The issue I am working is to create a different style page from the regular post single.html for about and contact pages. Currently the c…

An index.md page uses a single template, and an _index.md page uses a list template. Since your about page lives at the content root dir it’s just considered a regular page. So you’ll need to explicitly tell it to use the about single template. In the front matter of your about page try setting -…

Here’s a great post from @regis which should answer all your questions with regards to index.md and _index.md: [image] Hugo Page Resources, and how to use them... | Regis Philibert In this article we'll cover Hugo 0.32's Page Resources and its impact on the way we structure our content fo…

Thanks! So even though the about/index.md page is in the about sub-directory it will still use the _default/single.html template? Is there a better way to structure the theme for this scenario?

Thanks Leo, that post will take a bit for me to wrap my head around. It seams like a lot of the themes could use a revamp to take advantage of these features. Is there a “current theme” that is kept up to date and uses the latest features and directory structure?

So this file content/about/index.md Is equivalent (layout wise) to this file content/about.md Which means your about page is technically living under the content root section, which will use template layouts/_default/single.html, unless specified otherwise via front matter (as in my example abov…

Yup. It’s Hugo Fresh Theme from @regis : [image] Hugo Fresh A Hugo adaptation of the Fresh theme from CSS Ninja

:point_up_2:That’s from @lucperkins

Well, when you say it like that it makes perfect sense! Thank you. Also, changing the front matter and renaming a few files resolved the issue. It’s days like this that I go from thinking I understand the rendering to really flailing. Thank you for the clarity of your answer.

Template Lookup and the difference between _index.md and index.md

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Template Lookup and the difference between _index.md and index.md

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