Is it possible to prevent Hugo from automatically generating the taxonomy pages? I ask because I’m using taxonomies for purely internal purposes and don’t need or want any sort of listing page for the taxonomy. Cheers, Eric

disableKinds: ["taxonomy","taxonomyTerm","sitemap"] seems to work well. My site is just for a small biz, no need for categories or tags at the moment. I like to make my own sitemap for some reason.

I believe the folder structure will be created regardless. If your layouts are empty, your robots.txt avoids crawling the blank pages, and you create redirects (per @digitalcraftsman comment below), I think that would take care of your use case. Also, you can add whatever front matter you want to y…

I’m not aware of an option to turn the generation of taxonomy pages of. But you could create a template that redirect users if you want to avoid blank pages.

@rdwatters - Yeah, it’s definitely helpful. I’m contemplating creating a task that runs after the build to strip out the pages I don’t want. I do wish the creation of the taxonomy pages was more configurable.

Did you try overwriting what is considered to be a Taxonomy? For example: [taxonomies] tag = "" group = "" category = "" Might work in your favour.

Taxonomies are only generated for taxonomies defined in the configuration. The default is tags & categories, but if you set it to nothing than no taxonomy files will be generated.

Hah, so essential, I was right, correct? :slight_smile: I’m getting the hang out of this. :slight_smile:

I can certainly remove taxonomies from the config. The question is, can I still add a page to a taxonomy that isn’t defined in the config? For instance, let’s say I want to use a “project” taxonomy. Can I add that to my frontmatter: +++ projects = ["World Domination", "Excel"] +++ and then retriev…

Note, just removing it, makes it default back to tags and categories. You have to explicitly overwrite it.

If you don’t explicitly define something in the config as a taxonomy then it isn’t one. A taxonomy has a very specific meaning in Hugo. It’s explicitly a way to organize content for the final site and is built in with term and listing pages. If it’s not a taxonomy it’s just meta data and Hugo will …

@emarthinsen I think the confusion surround the use of “taxonomies” here. I also think I’m understanding what you mean by using the taxonomies “internally.” In Hugo, taxonomy has a very specific meaning (ie, specific insomuch as it’s similar to the way Wordpress might leverage the idea as well). A …

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Turning off taxonomy pages

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