Topic taxonomy

I was able to control the folder structure in the public folders ie to have sub folders for content in the slug in the MD files I put:

/ang/what-is-anglicanism/

that creates the sub folder /ang/. this is to help with large amounts of files.

we will have large amounts of topics also, is there a way to have “topics” arrange in sub folders instead of all in the main direction of “topics”

ie currently the structure is /public/topics/anglicanism/index.html

I would like to have subfolders for topics ie:
/public/topics/ang/anglicanism/index.html

Any help would be appreciated.

I don’t understand. What’s preventing you from doing the above?

We have our topics for each file called for in the Front matter of the MD files:

---
title: "aefauld, what does it mean?"
summary: "The term 'aefauld' is an archaic or dialectal word with roots in Old English, meaning 'of old' or 'ancient.' It is rarely used in modern English."
date: 2025-07-12T00:00:00
slug: "aef/aefauld-what-does-it-mean"
topics: "Etymology"
type: "questions"
---

from this hugo creates topic folders with an index.html file in it. is there a parameter to change to have it create a subfolder ie /et/

/public/topics/et/etymology

if there were 50-100k topics this would help with organizing the content better.

So the above is a publication path, not a nested taxonomy. Is that correct?

yes exactly, it would not matter if it showed as a permalink ie

https://website.com/topics/et/etymology/
or
https://website.com/topics/etymology/