Content Organization#

Hugo Book renders pages from a section as a sidebar menu. By default this is the docs/ directory.

Example Directory Structure#

content/
├── docs/
│   ├── _index.md
│   ├── getting-started.md
│   ├── guide/
│   │   ├── _index.md
│   │   ├── install.md
│   │   └── configure.md
│   └── reference/
│       └── _index.md
├── posts/
│   ├── _index.md
│   └── my-post.md
└── _index.md

Pages are ordered by weight frontmatter, then alphabetically. Section _index.md files define the section entry in the menu.

Changing the Menu Section#

By default, pages under docs/ are rendered as the sidebar menu. Change this with the BookSection parameter in Configuration. Set to '/' to render all top-level sections.

Page Layouts#

The theme provides several layouts:

Set the layout in frontmatter

---
layout: landing
---

See Pages for frontmatter reference and Menus for navigation controls.