Hello Hugo Community:
I am very keen on using the bootie-docs theme developed by @key-amb and as is shown at this demo site. I’m just diving into Hugo after learning that it offers optimal compatibility with the R blogdown package.
I first created and navigated to a directory called ~/Sites. I then followed followed the steps from the README.md of demo site’s Github repository to create a replicate that I could play around with locally:
% git clone https://github.com/progrhyme/hugo-theme-bootie-docs.git
% git clone https://github.com/progrhyme/bootie-docs-demo.git
% cd bootie-docs-demo
% mkdir themes
% ln -s /path/to/hugo-theme-bootie-docs themes/bootie-docs
% hugo server
This throws the following errors:
Start building sites …
hugo v0.100.1+extended darwin/arm64 BuildDate=unknown
ERROR 2022/06/05 18:38:31 render of "page" failed: "/Users/<user.name>/Sites/bootie-docs-demo/themes/bootie-docs/layouts/_default/single.html:1:3": execute of template failed: template: _default/single.html:1:3: executing "_default/single.html" at <partial "header.html" .>: error calling partial: "/Users/<user.name>/Sites/bootie-docs-demo/themes/bootie-docs/layouts/partials/header.html:36:14": execute of template failed: template: partials/header.html:36:14: executing "partials/header.html" at <.URL>: can't evaluate field URL in type *hugolib.pageState
ERROR 2022/06/05 18:38:31 render of "home" failed: "/Users/<user.name>/Sites/bootie-docs-demo/themes/bootie-docs/layouts/index.html:2:3": execute of template failed: template: index.html:2:3: executing "index.html" at <partial "header.html" .>: error calling partial: "/Users/<user.name>/Sites/bootie-docs-demo/themes/bootie-docs/layouts/partials/header.html:36:14": execute of template failed: template: partials/header.html:36:14: executing "partials/header.html" at <.URL>: can't evaluate field URL in type *hugolib.pageState
ERROR 2022/06/05 18:38:31 render of "page" failed: "/Users/<user.name>/Sites/bootie-docs-demo/themes/bootie-docs/layouts/_default/single.html:1:3": execute of template failed: template: _default/single.html:1:3: executing "_default/single.html" at <partial "header.html" .>: error calling partial: "/Users/<user.name>/Sites/bootie-docs-demo/themes/bootie-docs/layouts/partials/header.html:36:14": execute of template failed: template: partials/header.html:36:14: executing "partials/header.html" at <.URL>: can't evaluate field URL in type *hugolib.pageState
ERROR 2022/06/05 18:38:31 render of "taxonomy" failed: "/Users/<user.name>/Sites/bootie-docs-demo/themes/bootie-docs/layouts/_default/list.html:1:3": execute of template failed: template: _default/list.html:1:3: executing "_default/list.html" at <partial "header.html" .>: error calling partial: "/Users/<user.name>/Sites/bootie-docs-demo/themes/bootie-docs/layouts/partials/header.html:36:14": execute of template failed: template: partials/header.html:36:14: executing "partials/header.html" at <.URL>: can't evaluate field URL in type *hugolib.pageState
Error: Error building site: failed to render pages: render of "page" failed: "/Users/<user.name>/Sites/bootie-docs-demo/themes/bootie-docs/layouts/_default/single.html:1:3": execute of template failed: template: _default/single.html:1:3: executing "_default/single.html" at <partial "header.html" .>: error calling partial: "/Users/<user.name>/Sites/bootie-docs-demo/themes/bootie-docs/layouts/partials/header.html:36:14": execute of template failed: template: partials/header.html:36:14: executing "partials/header.html" at <.URL>: can't evaluate field URL in type *hugolib.pageState
Built in 19 ms
As you can see, the crux of the problem seems to be: can't evaluate field URL in type *hugolib.pageState.
% hugo env
hugo v0.100.1+extended darwin/arm64 BuildDate=unknown
GOOS="darwin"
GOARCH="arm64"
GOVERSION="go1.18.2"
I don’t understand the inner-workings of Hugo enough to get very far troubleshooting myself. I’m aware that there have been various updates to Hugo since the bootie-docs theme was last updated, so there could be a compatibility issue. If the original developer is still active on this forum and can chime in, that would be fantastic. If others can point to possible solution, I’m open ears.