Have root being a page and not a section about zola HOT 1 CLOSED

I would put the About content in _index.md and change its template to be page.html with a small

{% if section %}
{% set page = section %}
{% endif %}

but as you mentioned it's not going to cover cases where fields are not present for sections.

Sidequestion

I found that there 2 sets of people: some that like separating them and some that don't. There is https://zola.discourse.group/t/proposal-deprecate-sections/1968 to potentially unify them but that's not something that will be done soonish.

from zola.