Moving rooted templates to directories. about eleventy-netlify-boilerplate HOT 2 CLOSED

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.

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Thanks, that's really helpful to know.

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