Moving rooted templates to directories.

[kylesloper]

I have moved authors.njk , author.njk and tags.njk to my layouts directory and it is causing strange behaviour, is there something I need to update in order to do this.

I have also added 404.md to my pages directory and this also is causing some strange things to happen.

I moved these files purely to clean things up a little bit so if there is absolutely no way to get around this then let me know and I'll just keep the files where they are.

[Dan Urbanowicz]

authors.njk, author.njk, and tags.njk are pagination templates and therefore (in this case) they need to be placed in the Eleventy root.

If you wanted to you could put them inside a data directory e.g. /authors/ or /tags/ also inside the Eleventy root.

You wouldn’t put them inside the _/layouts/includes/ directory because they aren’t includes - they are at the top level of the template hierarchy.

Again, 404.md outputs a file 404.html into the root output directory _/site/, which is where it needs to be for Netlify to pick it up and use it to display a custom 404 page when required.

I feel that it's easier for those learning 11ty to understand the nature of these files if they are kept inside the project root.

[kylesloper]

Thanks, that's really helpful to know.