Language folder in pattern

An address pattern for a language’s pages opens with that language’s folder. On a site in several languages, a permalink: on a page in content/en/, and tags.permalink and series.permalink for the English tags and series, are read from /en/, the folder’s own address: the pattern /{year}/{slug}/ lands an English post at /en/2026/post-1/. Written as /en/{year}/{slug}/, the folder would be in the address twice.

What you’ll see

warning  Language folder in pattern: `/en/{year}/{slug}/` is read from `/en/` already
  Write it as `/{year}/{slug}/`.
  More: https://statac.dev/e/language-folder-in-pattern/

In the terminal the message also names the file and line where there is one, and marks the exact text.

Why Statac warns

Statac is sure what was meant: an address with the folder in it once. It reads the pattern without the folder, so the post lands at /en/2026/post-1/, and says so, because the same pattern is read from / on the main language’s pages at the top of content/.

How to fix it

Write the pattern without the language’s folder. A pattern for every language, written once in statac.yaml, then lands each language’s pages beneath its own folder.

Example

In content/en/index.md:

pages.permalink: /en/{year}/{slug}/

Without the folder, English posts still land at /en/2026/post-1/:

pages.permalink: /{year}/{slug}/

Its name

Name	language-folder-in-pattern
In the terminal	statac explain language-folder-in-pattern
To stop showing it	quiet: [language-folder-in-pattern] in statac.yaml, once you have understood it. Statac still counts it.