Academic Theme: Trouble Getting Metadata to Show

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Hello,

  1. I am trying to get metadata in my posts to show up. For example, lastmod and reading_time metrics to show at the top in my posts. I am using the Academic theme, and I took one of the example pages and used it here: https://hellocomma.net/wild-roses/

I can see two dots underneath my username (middot-divider). This page was copied directly from the theme’s example site, and lastmod was already given a value of: lastmod: “2019-04-17T00:00:00Z”. Additionally, my enableGitinfo is set to true, along with reading_time = true in my params.toml.

  1. I am expecting that the metadata in my posts show up considering I have either a manual value entered in the front matter or enableGitInfo set to true in my config.toml.

  2. As I can see here: https://hellocomma.net/wild-roses/ the metadata doesn’t seem to show up, and I only see two alone middot-dividers beneath my username.

I am using the Academic theme for Hugo, hosted on Netlify. I have the same issue when running locally. I am developing on Ubuntu through Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Any ideas or perhaps a configuration setting that I missed? Thanks!

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Please follow the advice in the requesting help message. You’ll need to share your site project. :slight_smile:

Also, check the Academic theme support resources; they had a dedicated issue queue and chat support.

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Hello, the project can be found here: https://github.com/Kashinoga/hello-comma-academic

I’ve already made a post over at the Academic support site. :slight_smile:

Thanks!

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After examining the documentation more closely: the directory structure of Academic/Hugo is very important.

Academic uses “posts” content types with this kind of meta data. My own custom pages need their own content type with the metadata structure.

A little more time in the documentation helped. :slight_smile: