Hello all, I’m having trouble getting the theme layout right to match the simple content structure. From what I’ve read, the layouts/posts/page.html should match up to the blog*.md content and the layouts/page.html should match up with the about-me.md but it isn’t working. It’s ignoring the posts/…

I’m unable to reproduce your issue with latest hugo version 0.148.1 seems there is something within different at your site. If you cannot figure that out sharing your repo will be easiest to support you. try it out here: git clone --single-branch -b topic-55440-about-me https://github.com/irkode…

[image] shawndo: From what I’ve read, the layouts/posts/page.html should match up to the blog*.md content and the layouts/page.html should match up with the about-me.md but it isn’t working. It’s ignoring the posts/page.html. What is not working? Your question is unclear. Also see Requesting …

thank you @irkode the sample code helped out. My content had “type” front matter that was screwing this up. When i removed it, it works as expected. Specifically the blog*.md files had a frontmatter type: post which made it ignore the layout\posts path and defaulted to the root page.html. It didn…

in your shown part there is nothing inside the layouts that would resolve a type “post” and with that in the layout order docs The type set in front matter will effectively replace the section folder in Page path when doing lookups. you will have something like a lookup for /layouts/post/.... w…

yes, i never knew type frontmatter would override the section. In fact, he definition of type says that’s pretty much its whole purpose: content type A content type is a classification of content inferred from the top-level directory name or the type set in front matter . Pages in the root of the c…

hope you are aware of the new template system that came with v0.146. there’s a one pager in the docs about that. so behavior might have been differently before.

Template lookup order problem

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What is not working? Your question is unclear. Also see Requesting Help.

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Template lookup order problem

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