I have mainly orphan pages

[jpcaruana]

Hi,

I am migrating from Hugo.

Despite the fact I created in the content folder a _index.md for every section, I still have orphan pages:

$ find . -name _index.md
./content/posts/_index.md
./content/notes/_index.md
./content/bookmarks/_index.md
./content/_index.md

Zola is explicit about it:

Creating 2634 pages (2632 orphan) and 3 sections

These orphan pages render pretty well by the way

What am I doing wrong? How could I debug this to understand what is happening?

I run zola 0.16.1.
Thanks

[keats]

Where are the pages located on disk? Can you show a tree of a small folder if you have one?

[jpcaruana]

@keats

Where are the pages located on disk? Can you show a tree of a small folder if you have one?

Yes!

$ tree -L 1 content/notes/
content/notes/
├── 2009
├── 2010
├── 2011
├── 2012
├── 2013
├── 2014
├── 2015
├── 2016
├── 2017
├── 2018
├── 2019
├── 2020
├── 2021
├── 2022
└── _index.md

$ tree content/notes/2022   # edited output
content/notes/2022
├── 01
│   ├── 03
│   │   └── pour-debuter-cette-nouvelle
│   │       └── index.md
│   ├── 20
│   │   └── de-la-curiosite-nait-l
│   │       └── index.md
│   └── 26
│       ├── congratulations-and-many-thanks
│       │   └── index.md
│       └── plus-je-lis-mon-fil-twitter
│           └── index.md

[keats]

So you need a _index.md in every subdirectory as well. In your case it can probably just contains:

+++
transparent = true
+++

to pass the pages to the top level section (like content/notes/_index.md). _index.md only affects the current directory.

[jpcaruana]

oh! It is a show stopper for me and zola then I have many many folders and sub-folders.
There is no other options to discover all .md files?

[keats]

@jpcaruana

There is no other options to discover all .md files?

Nothing right now.
In your case, I would have a single notes folder with a _index.md in it.
Then I would have files named 2022-01-03_pour-debuter-cette-nouvelle for example, where zola would extract the date from the filename. You will still need to set the page in the front-matter of each page though, like:

+++
path = "notes/2022/01/03/pour-debuter-cette-nouvelle"
+++

[jpcaruana]

Cristal clear, thanks!