Markdown pages in content not rendered?

[kinow]

Hi,

I am choosing a new theme for an old Jekyll site migrated to Hugo, and tried lotusdocs.dev. The landing page looks great, but I created a file "content/license.md", and hugo seems to skip that file when producing the final files. It works if I use the docs folder, but not for the top level pages.

I toyed with the front matter configurations, marking as not draft, etc., but with no luck. Do you know if there's anything that needs to be done to use top level pages with the theme? If not it might be that I'm missing something, and I will try a bit more to see if I can fix it.

Thanks

[kinow]

Also tested with uglyURLs = true. Didn't work.

Then cloned the hyde theme into the themes directory, set theme=hyde and commented out the modules for lotusdocs, and then the page was generated successfully (i.e. without the theme it worked).

Comparing with the theme.

I deleted the public directory contents, and re-executed the command hugo server --navigateToChanged --buildDrafts --buildFuture --watch --verbose between tests. The URL I tested was http://localhost:1313/license.html.

[kinow]

(ignore the public directory in the screenshots, it's updated on disk, and the IDE takes a few seconds to rebuild, unless I trigger a reload from disk)

[kinow]

Tried another theme (https://github.com/imfing/hextra-starter-template) adding as module, hugo mod get -u, hugo mod tidy, then changed theme in my toml file, and executed the same command above, and it worked fine.

Probably going to try that one as I don't have much time today to work on this, but just in case others face the same issue, I think the info here should be a good starting point to debug/investigate what happens. Maybe the theme could include an about.md as example? Cheers