Help with tags and categories.

[Abhinav1217]

Hi, I have copied config.toml (and converted to yaml because forestry automatically created yaml before ) from your examplesite directory and uncommented the tags, and categories section of the config.

Still when I go to /tags/ or /categories/ it goes 404. I even tried to create an empty tags.md and categories.md but still didn't work. What am I doing wrong. I have no experience with hugo.

PS: Can you also tell me how to remove /post/ from url ?

[funkydan2]

Hi @Abhinav1217,

I'm happy to help with your problems, but from the sounds of it, they're not specifically issues with this theme, but rather problems you're having with using hugo.

I recommend you open a thread over at the Hugo forums. I keep an eye on that forum, and if you open a thread with the same topic as this one, I'll chime in over there (as will a bunch of other helpful people). Before you post the thread, make sure you read this about requesting help...especially the bit about providing a link to your code.

Without seeing your code any help is a bit of a shot in the dark. But my guess as to why the tags and categories pages are empty is that you don't have any pages with a tag or category specified.

As to your ps question: you may find your answer by reading about the slug settings in the hugo documentation.

[Abhinav1217]

Hi, You can see the blog at https://missing-dots.in and check the code hosted on github. I used Forestry.io to create initial website with some other theme, But then tried bunch of different themes from themes.gohugo.io , finally ended up liking your theme.

I copied the instructions from your exampleSite/config.toml and used online converter to convert needed part from toml to yaml .

    - identifier: "tags"
      name: "Tags"
      title: "Tags"
      url: /tags/
      weight: 0

    - identifier: "categories"
      name: "Categories"
      title: "Categories"
      url: /categories/
      weight: 0

Currently there are two post on the blog all of them have few tags and categories mention. And when I click on one of the tag or categories, I can see it has generated proper link, eg, missing-dots.in/tags/history But the output is 404 page.

I had already tried to follow slug settings from the same link you mentioned, Tried to create tags.md and categories.md, even tried Tags.md and Categoried.md, When it didn't work, I tried to add it to front matter . I am still getting 404.

I will give it another shot today and if it doesn't work, I will post the same on the forum.

[funkydan2]

The reason Hugo isn't building pages for tags and categories is because you've disabled those taxonomies by specifying a custom taxonomy authors.

In the documentation it says

While adding custom taxonomies, you need to put in the default taxonomies too, if you want to keep them.

See https://gohugo.io/content-management/taxonomies#example-adding-a-custom-taxonomy-named-series

[Abhinav1217]

Wow I missed that. author was created by previous theme. I guess I need to clean up the yaml for all then themes I am not using now.

Thanks for the help.