how to set a custom template for all pages inside a certain directory?

[plgruener]

I'm writing a custom theme for a non-blog site, and I want all pages in subdirectory A use one custom template (say theme/templates/page_a.html), all pages in subdir B another template (theme/templates/page_b.html) and all other pages use the default/generic page template.

I know I can override the template:… metadata per file, but this is tedius and error-prone.
I could also write a custom plugin, but I'd rather not if there is an easy builtin way. Any ideas?

[avaris]

See EXTRA_PATH_METADATA:

EXTRA_PATH_METADATA = {
    'A': {'template': 'page_a'},
    'B': {'template': 'page_b'},
    # ...
}

[avaris]

PS: Just make sure folder names are distinct enough. Because 'A' will capture both A/* and A_file.md etc. It's essentially a prefix check on the path.

[plgruener]

thank you so much, worked perfectly. I missed that this is a prefix check (not very intuitiv for a dictionary key).