Typical Hugo Content Structure

A common setup places each post under content/post/<post-folder>/, with index.md and related images in the same folder.

This works well for small sites, but as post count grows, the top-level directory can become crowded and hard to manage.

Suggested Time-Based Structure

A cleaner approach is organizing by year (or year/month/day):

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content/
  post/
    2020/
      1.zh-cn.md
      1.zh-tw.md
      2/
        index.zh-cn.md
        index.zh-tw.md
        1.jpg
        ...
    2021/
      ...
    2022/
      ...

Guidelines:

• Group posts by year first (or finer granularity if preferred).
• Posts without images can stay as standalone markdown files.
• Posts with images should use a dedicated folder and index.lang.md naming.
• Keep multilingual files together using index.<lang>.md (for example index.zh-cn.md, index.zh-tw.md).