diff --git a/tpl/tplimpl/templatedescriptor.go b/tpl/tplimpl/templatedescriptor.go
index 8e4390fae..ca73c9f78 100644
--- a/tpl/tplimpl/templatedescriptor.go
+++ b/tpl/tplimpl/templatedescriptor.go
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ func (this TemplateDescriptor) doCompare(category Category, isEmbedded bool, oth
 		w.w2 = weight2Group1
 	}
 
-	if this.LayoutFromUser == "" && other.LayoutFromTemplate != "" && (other.LayoutFromTemplate == this.LayoutFromTemplate || other.LayoutFromTemplate == layoutAll) {
+	if other.LayoutFromTemplate != "" && (other.LayoutFromTemplate == this.LayoutFromTemplate || other.LayoutFromTemplate == layoutAll) {
 		w.w1 += weightLayoutStandard
 		w.w2 = weight2Group1
 
diff --git a/tpl/tplimpl/templatestore_integration_test.go b/tpl/tplimpl/templatestore_integration_test.go
index 32e1248fe..e59dad33a 100644
--- a/tpl/tplimpl/templatestore_integration_test.go
+++ b/tpl/tplimpl/templatestore_integration_test.go
@@ -1204,3 +1204,28 @@ layouts/_partials/comment.ru.xml
 	b.AssertFileContent("public/ru/index.html", "layouts/_partials/comment.ru.html") // fail
 	b.AssertFileContent("public/ru/index.xml", "layouts/_partials/comment.ru.xml")   // fail
 }
+
+func TestLayoutIssue13628(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	files := `
+-- hugo.toml --
+disableKinds = ['home','rss','sitemap','taxonomy','term']
+-- content/p1.md --
+---
+title: p1
+layout: foo
+---
+-- layouts/single.html --
+layouts/single.html
+-- layouts/list.html --
+layouts/list.html
+`
+
+	for range 5 {
+
+		b := hugolib.Test(t, files)
+
+		b.AssertFileContent("public/p1/index.html", "layouts/single.html")
+	}
+}