# Issue with generating site - missing posts

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-with-generating-site-missing-posts/12149>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [May 25, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-with-generating-site-missing-posts/12149 "2018-05-25T23:04:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Kaicastledine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/kaicastledine/32/4578_2.png) [@Kaicastledine](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Kaicastledine)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-with-generating-site-missing-posts/12149/1 "2018-05-25T23:04:06Z")

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Alright so weird one here…

I had a hugo site setup locally which both the source and public are hosted on github.  
Not added any content since end of last year so wanted to add a few pages.

I’ve started “Hugo server” locally and loads of pages are not being rendered… only about 5 out fo 30.

They’ve not being shown in any of the source code in the index.html either.

So thinking that my local copy of the site has issues I went and git cloned the hugo source code from my live working site which in the public folder you can see the correct pages being generated in the index.html.

I then ran hugo server in that site and same issue appears and when you run “hugo” to generate the new site … It overwrites the correctly generated one with the problematic one.

I’ve then gone back through various versions/commits on github of my site which all have worked previously (can be shown not only on the live site but the commits/versions of the Public folder repo which is hosted)

I then thought this was some local hugo issue on my new machine … repeated the process on a linux VM… same issue.

I have no idea how what was working source code for a site which is even working hosted now … Does not work despite whatever commit I roll back to.

The source code for the site is here and you can see the commits  
[https://github.com/KCSEC/IVWSource](https://github.com/KCSEC/IVWSource)

And the Public folder linked by submodule here which is the live hosting

[https://github.com/KCSEC/IVOIDWARRANTIES.github.io](https://github.com/KCSEC/IVOIDWARRANTIES.github.io)

I thought this was some baseurl issue when locally viewing it with hugo server … but when generated it doesn’t show the right content either.

Any ideas ?

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**Author:** ![Kaicastledine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/kaicastledine/32/4578_2.png) [@Kaicastledine](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Kaicastledine)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-with-generating-site-missing-posts/12149/2 "2018-05-25T23:06:35Z")

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You can see in the hosted version the index.html shows as follows,  
[https://github.com/KCSEC/IVOIDWARRANTIES.github.io/blob/master/index.html](https://github.com/KCSEC/IVOIDWARRANTIES.github.io/blob/master/index.html)

but if you git clone the source code  
[https://github.com/KCSEC/IVWSource](https://github.com/KCSEC/IVWSource)

most of the content does not generate at all yet this was and still is the unchanged code that generated the currently live and shown site in the [IVOIDWARRANTIES.github.io](http://IVOIDWARRANTIES.github.io)

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**Author:** ![Kaicastledine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/kaicastledine/32/4578_2.png) [@Kaicastledine](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Kaicastledine)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-with-generating-site-missing-posts/12149/3 "2018-05-25T23:25:04Z")

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This may actually be not related … but it seems to only show posts dated within the 2017 period when running “hugo/hugo server”.

For bad use of ordering posts … set dates to made up years (temp thing).

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**Author:** ![Kaicastledine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/kaicastledine/32/4578_2.png) [@Kaicastledine](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Kaicastledine)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-with-generating-site-missing-posts/12149/4 "2018-05-25T23:39:29Z")

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Rolled back to an older hugo version 0.30 - linux 64bit and ran -v --debug on the current source code

I actually shows all of the pages being read as source

```
/hugo server -v --debug
INFO 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Using config file: /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/config.toml
INFO 2018/05/26 00:34:49 /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/static/ is the only static directory available to sync from
INFO 2018/05/26 00:34:49 syncing static files to /
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Load I18n from [%!q(*source.Filesystem=&{[] /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/i18n [] {0xc420373020 0xc420073980 map[] en}})]
WARN 2018/05/26 00:34:49 No translation bundle found for default language "en"
WARN 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Translation func for language en not found, use default.
WARN 2018/05/26 00:34:49 i18n not initialized, check that you have language file (in i18n) that matches the site language or the default language.
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Load templates from path "/root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts" prefix ""
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/404.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Add template file from path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/404.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/_default
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/_default/list.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Add template file from path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/_default/list.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/_default/single.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Add template file from path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/_default/single.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/index.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Add template file from path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/index.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/footer.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Add template file from path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/footer.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/head.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Add template file from path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/head.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/header.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Add template file from path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/header.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/js.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Add template file from path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/js.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/off-canvas.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Add template file from path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/off-canvas.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/pagination.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Add template file from path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/pagination.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Template path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/post-list.html
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Add template file from path /root/Documents/IVW/IVWSource/layouts/partials/post-list.html
Started building sites ...
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Load Data from 1 source(s)
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Read 33 pages from source
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/About/About.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Events/TechXLR8-2017.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/LAB/Metasploitable2/Metasploitable2M.mdown
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Events/EventsList.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Events/IFSEC-2017.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/LAB/Metasploitable3/Metasploitable3M.mdown
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Metasploit/UsingMetasploit-ReverseShell.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/NetCat/NetCatCheatSheet.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/LinuxEnumExploit/kernelpop.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Metasploit/MSFVenom/Payload Generating.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Nmap/Nmap.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Pivoting/Basics.mdown
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Pivoting/LocalPortForwarding.mdown
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Nmap/NmapCheatsheet.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Nmap/NmapNSE.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Pivoting/meterpreter.mdown
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/ReverseShells.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/TheFatRat/FTREasyPayloads.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Pivoting/proxychains.mdown
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Pivoting/sshuttle.mdown
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/TheFatRat/TFRBackdoorEXE.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Website Pentesting/sqlmap.mdown
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/WindowsEnumExploit/netbiosX-SC.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Website Pentesting/XSS.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/Website Pentesting/nikto.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/Pentesting Tuts/WindowsEnumExploit/netbiosX-WKE.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/RFID-NFC-Research/ImplantSeries.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/RFID-NFC-Research/Implants.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/RFID-NFC-Research/ImplantProjects -KeyCard-Access.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/RFID-NFC-Research/ImplantProjects-Computer-Unlock.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/RFID-NFC-Research/MyImplants.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/RFID-NFC-Research/proxmarksetup.md
DEBUG 2018/05/26 00:34:49 Reading from posts/RFID-NFC-Research/proxmarktags.md

```

but reports the following,

```
Built site for language en:
0 of 5 drafts rendered
0 of 23 futures rendered
0 expired content
6 regular pages created
42 other pages created
0 non-page files copied
1 paginator pages created
11 tags created
6 categories created
total in 18 ms

```

Not sure why but the current brew install hugo version on mac when running -v --debug doesn’t show it loading the page sources at all.

But does report the following

```
+------------------+-----+
  Pages | 29  
  Paginator pages | 0  
  Non-page files | 0  
  Static files | 132  
  Processed images | 0  
  Aliases | 1  
  Sitemaps | 1  
  Cleaned | 0
```

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**Author:** ![budparr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/budparr/32/749_2.png) [@budparr](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/budparr)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-with-generating-site-missing-posts/12149/5 "2018-05-25T23:52:49Z")

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Looks like a bunch of your content is dated far into the future:

 ![46%20PM](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/gohugo/original/2X/6/698d549a357984ab676e8bc13b87d7a6aaf2b947.png)

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**Author:** ![Kaicastledine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/kaicastledine/32/4578_2.png) [@Kaicastledine](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Kaicastledine)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-with-generating-site-missing-posts/12149/6 "2018-05-26T00:01:02Z")

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Yeah this theme sorts itself by the date, so bodged it by messing with the post dates just to get the correct order on the posts.

I’ve got a project to redo a lot of the code and remove how it sorts the posts… even potentially a new theme entirely.

Is this for some reason now the cause of the issue ?

On the live site it hosts it with all the pages regardless of the ridiculous dates.

I’ll have to run a few tests and see what’s gone on.

Is there a way for it to build with all dates present past and future or to bypass any date requirements or specific ranges etc ?

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**Author:** ![RickCogley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/rickcogley/32/10269_2.png) [@RickCogley](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/RickCogley)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-with-generating-site-missing-posts/12149/7 "2018-05-26T00:34:35Z")

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Do `hugo --help` and look at the switches `--buildXXX`. You can get it to build drafts or future posts etc.

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**Author:** ![Kaicastledine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/kaicastledine/32/4578_2.png) [@Kaicastledine](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Kaicastledine)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-with-generating-site-missing-posts/12149/8 "2018-05-27T18:52:08Z")

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Well done you’ve nailed it!

Any idea how this has only started happening ?

Last time the site was edited was nov 2017, new feature or will it be one of those weird mysteries haha?

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**Author:** ![OwenFM](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/owenfm/32/15142_2.png) [@OwenFM](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/OwenFM)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-with-generating-site-missing-posts/12149/9 "2021-09-04T13:01:15Z")

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After suffering the same problem, it turns out the issue was that I’d set the date for the post to be a few hours in the future.

Upon changing the date, everything was working fine again.

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**Author:** ![alexandros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@alexandros](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/alexandros)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/issue-with-generating-site-missing-posts/12149/10 "2021-09-04T13:12:13Z")

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