This is an example site that uses the Docsy Hugo theme. It's an alternative version of the "just the docs" site that uses a documentation page as its home page, which each section also being documentation, rather than starting from /docs/.

You can see a preview of this site at https://mostlydocs.netlify.app/

This version does not require a modified copy of the Docsy theme's layouts, so is easier to keep in sync with the Docsy theme. It does this by making use of the target-specific front matter cascade feature that was introduced in Hugo 0.76.0 (with a bug fixed in 0.77.0 that's required for this to work).

If you take a look at content/en/_index.md, you'll see:

cascade:
- _target:
    path: "/blog/**"
  type: "blog"
  # set to false to include a blog section in the section nav along with docs
  toc_root: true
- _target:
    path: "/**"
    kind: "page"
  type: "docs"
- _target:
    path: "/**"
    kind: "section"
  type: "docs"

This makes every page in the site default to the docs type, except for /blog/* (you could leave this out, of course, or add other sections that you don't want to be treated as docs).

The toc_root setting causes the blog section to be removed from the main section menu in the left bar, and instead show up only when Blog is selected from the top menu, making it appear completely separate.

Otherwise it all works just like any other Docsy site.

To use this for yourself, make a copy of this template project and change content/en as needed (don't forget to run git submodule update --init --recursive to fetch the theme and its dependencies).

Taxonomies such as tags and categories work in the same way as they do with Docsy. They are disabled by default.

See the Docsy taxonomy support documentation for instructions.