I’m coming from Jekyll & am having trouble understanding Hugo’s layout + page structure. In Jekyll: I have my layout templates - _layouts/default.html I have my page specific markup / markdown - _pages/foobar.html I set my url slug in the page’s front matter - permalink: /random/ The page is …

[image] Tutorial: Make a Hugo blog from scratch tips & tricks Copied from the tutorial intro: In my opinion, Hugo’s current quick start is ample. It does just what the name says, gets you started you quickly . Still, there have many requests on the forums for a tutoria…

[image] araphiel: I have my layout templates - _layouts/default.html Common templates are: layouts/ _default/ baseof.html list.html single.html [image] araphiel: I have my page specific markup / markdown - _pages/foobar.html Content lives under the conten…

I had the same when I changed from Jekyll to Hugo longer ago (never will go back). So I wrote my thoughts as a newbie and perhaps this helps: These are thoughts about the lookup order: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/my-experiences-with-hugos-template-lookup-order/9959/3 This is a way how to check …

@Leo_Merkel @zwbetz @mojoa I really appreciate you all! The layout structure makes much more sense now Last question for you about permalinks - does the permalink configs work with nested directories? [34%20AM] This setup properly generates content in /members/ into the site root (based on slu…

This is because the _index.md in /members/videos/_index.md is the “content file” for the videos section itself, if that makes sense

Here’s a great Hugo theme for you to explore: SimpleIT. It makes heavy use of nested sections and you can see in the templates how to display nested sections, headlines etc. [image] marcanuy/simpleit-hugo-theme Responsive Hugo theme for hierarchical content websites - marcanuy/simpleit-hu…

Sorry for blowing you all up - thanks so much [image] araphiel: [Screen Shot 2019-01-30 at 11.55.34 AM.png] This setup properly generates content in /members/ into the site root (based on slug). members/faqs.md would generate to foobar.com/faqs/ However, this setup fails with nested folder…

Have you tried setting a permalink for videos?

[image] araphiel: Is there a way to get that working? I’m porting a large site over & this would really help for organization opposed to the base leaf / branch model. What’s the structure of the importing content source? You might still make the pattern you are looking for, but not with just…

. └── content └── pages ├── about-us.md // <- https://example.com/about-us/ ├── videos | └── _index.md // <- https://example.com/videos/ | └── superman.md // <- https://example.com/videos/superman/ | └── batman.md // <- https://example.com/video…

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