How to Disable the "Categories" and "Tags" Pages in Hugo

I use Hugo to run my blog. I was having some issues where I could not disable the “Categories” and “Tags” pages that are generated automatically.

I eventually solved the issue by adding these lines to my config.toml:

disableKinds = ["taxonomy", "term", "taxonomyTerm"]

[taxonomies]
    category = "categories"
    tag = "tags"

Warning

Make sure that disableKinds is at the bottom of the primary configuration lines at the top. Hugo gets confused when section-less configuration attributes are mixed in with other configuration sections.

Example:

title = 'Your Blog'
theme = "my-amazing-theme"
# New Config Line
disableKinds = ["taxonomy", "term", "taxonomyTerm"]

# Config sections
[taxonomies]
    category = "categories"
    tag = "tags"

I noticed that this issue primarily appears on Linux-based installations, but Windows-based installations still work correctly with term (as of 11/06/22).

Eventually I discovered that my issue was that the taxonomyTerm kind was missing in disableKinds. By adding that, it fixed my issue. According to GitHub, the term kind was deprecated and replaced with taxonomyTerm in June 2020, but the documentation was never updated. View the commit here.