From 46dd28266d2541ba422692155f79d6cfa52e4ea3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Mooring <joe.mooring@veriphor.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 09:32:23 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Document the capitalizeListTitles site config option

---
 content/en/getting-started/configuration.md | 10 +++++++++-
 content/en/methods/page/Title.md            | 16 +++++++++-------
 content/en/templates/lists/index.md         |  8 +++++++-
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/content/en/getting-started/configuration.md b/content/en/getting-started/configuration.md
index 04b61685ca..a0556e1901 100644
--- a/content/en/getting-started/configuration.md
+++ b/content/en/getting-started/configuration.md
@@ -232,6 +232,14 @@ See [Configure Build](#configure-build).
 
 See [Configure File Caches](#configure-file-caches).
 
+###### capitalizeListTitles
+
+{{< new-in 0.123.3 >}}
+
+(`bool`) Whether to capitalize automatic list titles. Applicable to section, taxonomy, and term pages. Default is `true`. You can change the capitalization style in your site configuration to one of `ap`, `chicago`, `go`, `firstupper`, or `none`. See [details].
+
+[details]: /getting-started/configuration/#configure-title-case
+
 ###### cascade
 
 Pass down down default configuration values (front matter) to pages in the content tree. The options in site config is the same as in page front matter, see [Front Matter Cascade](/content-management/front-matter#cascade).
@@ -385,7 +393,7 @@ See [Content Management](/content-management/urls/#permalinks).
 
 ###### pluralizeListTitles
 
-(`bool`) Pluralize titles in lists. Default is `true`.
+(`bool`) Whether to pluralize automatic list titles. Applicable to section pages. Default is `true`.
 
 ###### publishDir
 
diff --git a/content/en/methods/page/Title.md b/content/en/methods/page/Title.md
index ab005d03ca..5c2c98d6b2 100644
--- a/content/en/methods/page/Title.md
+++ b/content/en/methods/page/Title.md
@@ -20,19 +20,21 @@ title = 'About us'
 {{ .Title }} → About us
 ```
 
-With section pages not backed by a file, the `Title` method returns the section name, pluralized and converted to title case.
-
-To disable [pluralization]:
+With section, taxonomy, and term pages not backed by a file, the `Title` method returns the section name, capitalized and pluralized. You can disable these transformations by setting [`capitalizeListTitles`] and [`pluralizeListTitles`] in your site configuration. For example:
 
 {{< code-toggle file=hugo >}}
+capitalizeListTitles = false
 pluralizeListTitles = false
 {{< /code-toggle >}}
 
-To change the [title case style], specify one of `ap`, `chicago`, `go`, `firstupper`, or `none`:
+You can change the capitalization style in your site configuration to one of `ap`, `chicago`, `go`, `firstupper`, or `none`. For example:
 
 {{< code-toggle file=hugo >}}
-titleCaseStyle = "ap"
+titleCaseStyle = "firstupper"
 {{< /code-toggle >}}
 
-[pluralization]: /functions/inflect/pluralize/
-[title case style]: /getting-started/configuration/#configure-title-case
+ See [details].
+
+[`capitalizeListTitles`]: /getting-started/configuration/#capitalizelisttitles
+[`pluralizeListTitles`]: /getting-started/configuration/#pluralizelisttitles
+[details]: /getting-started/configuration/#configure-title-case
diff --git a/content/en/templates/lists/index.md b/content/en/templates/lists/index.md
index 06f11bf3d4..4af705bf8f 100644
--- a/content/en/templates/lists/index.md
+++ b/content/en/templates/lists/index.md
@@ -152,7 +152,13 @@ Using this same `layouts/_default/list.html` template and applying it to the `qu
 {{< /code >}}
 
 {{% note %}}
-The default behavior of Hugo is to pluralize list titles; hence the inflection of the `quote` section to "Quotes" when called with the `.Title` [page variable](/methods/page/). You can change this via the `pluralizeListTitles` directive in your [site configuration](/getting-started/configuration/).
+By default, Hugo capitalizes and pluralizes automatic list titles including section, taxonomy, and term pages. You can disable these transformations by setting [`capitalizeListTitles`] and [`pluralizeListTitles`] in your site configuration.
+
+You can change the capitalization style in your site configuration to one of `ap`, `chicago`, `go`, `firstupper`, or `none`. See [details].
+
+[`capitalizeListTitles`]: /getting-started/configuration/#capitalizelisttitles
+[`pluralizeListTitles`]: /getting-started/configuration/#pluralizelisttitles
+[details]: /getting-started/configuration/#configure-title-case
 {{% /note %}}
 
 ## Example list templates