Hugo: Custom slug is appended to bundle directory name

[regisphilibert]

Consider this Front Matter:

Title: What we do
slug: what-we-do

Depending if it's from a Leaf Bundle or regular md file Hugo will build the url differently:

content/about/services/misc.md> http://site.com/about/services/what-we-do/ ✅
content/about/services/misc/index.md> http://site.com/about/services/misc/what-we-do/ 🚫

[misterbisson]

Agreed, I just ran into this issue myself.

My use-case is more blog oriented and I have bundle folders for every post. It's a large number of posts, so they really need to have a date or other number in the directory name, but I'd rather not expose that in the public URL.

My workaround for now is to set an explicit url: value in the front matter.

Update

The behavior here is very different for content in content/post vs. content/anything-else.

The tool I was using to export content defaulted to content/posts (note the plural), which results in the behavior described above.

Now that I've learned that content/post has some magic associated with it, I'll be more careful.

[DirtyF]

I just stumbled upon this on a multi-lingual website, the slug gets added to the page bundle:

• content/en/localization/index.md > /en/localization/ ✅
• content/fr/localization/index.md > /en/localization/localisation/ 🚫

I had to set an url to get it fixed.

[erolabzait]

Same issue as @DirtyF

[KillianKemps]

I encountered the same issue because with my previous CMS Grav I was using the slug in the Leaf Bundle to specify the URL in other languages.

To workaround, I configured the permalinks in the config.toml like this (with blog being the section name):

[permalinks]
  blog = "/blog/:slug/"

However you must check that the URLs are like you wish. In my case, some French articles got accents in their path while before they didn't had so I had to precise the slug for those articles in the front matter.

Update:
Finally, in order to avoid to add a slug to my French articles, I configured the permalinks per language:

[languages]
  [languages.en]
    [languages.en.permalinks]
      blog = "/blog/:slug"
  [languages.fr]
    [languages.fr.permalinks]
      blog = "/blog/:filename"

Update:
You can remove accents from URLs by adding one parameter to your configuration file: RemovePathAccents = true

[regisphilibert]

This is beginning to be be noisy in the discourse, so: shameless bump 🤷‍♂️

[jzeneto]

I have the same problem of @regisphilibert and @DirtyF here... Just to add something to conversation:

In the multilingual docs page, slug's use is explained as below:

To localize the URLs, the slug or url front matter param can be set in any of the non-default language file.

For example, a french translation (content/about.fr.md) can have its own localized slug.

Title: A Propos
slug: a-propos

At render, Hugo will build both /about/ and fr/a-propos/ while maintaning their translation linking.

If using url, remember to include the language part as well: fr/compagnie/a-propos/.

But this is not what happens, as explained in this issue.

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