hugo/docs/content/content/sections.md

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Sections	2013-07-01

Hugo thinks that you organize your content with a purpose. The same structure that works to organize your source content is used to organize the rendered site ( see organization ). Following this pattern Hugo uses the top level of your content organization as the Section.

The following example site uses two sections, "post" and "quote".

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└── content
    ├── post
    |   ├── firstpost.md       // <- http://site.com/post/firstpost/
    |   ├── happy
    |   |   └── happiness.md   // <- http://site.com/happy/happiness/
    |   └── secondpost.md      // <- http://site.com/post/secondpost/
    └── quote
        ├── first.md           // <- http://site.com/quote/first/
        └── second.md          // <- http://site.com/quote/second/

Regardless of location on disk, the section can be provided in the front matter which will affect the destination location.

Sections and Types

By default everything created within a section will use the content type that matches the section name.

Section defined in the front matter have the same impact.

To change the type of a given piece of content simply define the type in the front matter.

If a layout for a given type hasn't been provided a default type template will be used instead provided is exists.