# Generating Index Files For Post Subdirectories

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/generating-index-files-for-post-subdirectories/512>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 4, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/generating-index-files-for-post-subdirectories/512 "2017-05-04T19:29:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![PrimHelios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/59ef9b/32.png) [@PrimHelios](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/PrimHelios)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/generating-index-files-for-post-subdirectories/512/1 "2017-05-04T19:29:55Z")

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Jekyll generates a lot of subdirectories for posts. For instance, the path of the default post is “/jekyll/updates/2017/05/03/”. However, Jekyll doesn’t generate any index.html files for any of those subdirectories. Is there a way to generate those pages?

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**Author:** ![mmistakes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/mmistakes/32/2169_2.png) [@mmistakes](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/mmistakes)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/generating-index-files-for-post-subdirectories/512/2 "2017-05-04T23:13:57Z")

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A plugin like [Jekyll Archives](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-archives) will do this for you.