Not generating content for author taxonomy

[amb85]

I’m trying to generate taxonomy and taxonomy term pages for blog authors. I have this feature working for tags and categories, but when I generate the site, only index.html gets generated in the authors folder.

In config.toml, I have declared my taxonomies:

[taxonomies]
  author   = "authors"
  tag      = "tags"
  category = "categories"

In the front matter, I am declaring the relevant taxonomies:

categories: ['Tutorials', 'Websites']
tags: ['Hugo', 'Codeship', 'DigitalOcean', 'CI-CD']
author: "Ashley Bye"

And I have the following structure in ./content:

tree ./content/
./content/
├── authors
│   └── ashley-bye
│       └── _index.md
├── blog
│   └── 2017
│       ├── 10
│       │   └── test-3.md
│       ├── 11
│       │   ├── test-1.md
│       │   └── test-2.md
│       ├── 12
│       │   └── automating-hugo-deployment-to-digitalocean-with-codeship.md
│       ├── 6
│       │   └── test-10.md
│       ├── 7
│       │   └── test-9.md
│       ├── 8
│       │   ├── test-7.md
│       │   └── test-8.md
│       └── 9
│           ├── test-4.md
│           ├── test-5.md
│           └── test-6.md
└── page
    ├── about-me.md

Yet, when I run hugo, my public folder does not have any author pages:

tree ./public/ 110ms  Tue  2 Jan 08:03:45 2018
./public/
├── authors
│   ├── ashley-bye
│   │   └── index.html
│   └── index.html
├── blog
│   ├── 2017
│   │   ├── 10
│   │   │   └── test-3
│   │   │       └── index.html
│   │   ├── 11
│   │   │   ├── test-1
│   │   │   │   └── index.html
│   │   │   └── test-2
│   │   │       └── index.html
│   │   ├── 12
│   │   │   └── automating-hugo-deployment-to-digitalocean-with-codeship
│   │   │       └── index.html
│   │   ├── 6
│   │   │   └── test-10
│   │   │       └── index.html
│   │   ├── 7
│   │   │   └── test-9
│   │   │       └── index.html
│   │   ├── 8
│   │   │   ├── test-7
│   │   │   │   └── index.html
│   │   │   └── test-8
│   │   │       └── index.html
│   │   └── 9
│   │       ├── test-4
│   │       │   └── index.html
│   │       ├── test-5
│   │       │   └── index.html
│   │       └── test-6
│   │           └── index.html
│   ├── index.html
│   └── page
│       ├── 1
│       │   └── index.html
│       └── 2
│           └── index.html
├── categories
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── tutorials
│   │   └── index.html
│   └── websites
│       └── index.html
├── css
│   ├── custom.css
├── favicon-16x16.png
├── favicon-32x32.png
├── images
│   ├── 20171228
│   │   ├── connect-github.png
│   │   ├── delete-test-pipeline.png
│   │   ├── master-branch.png
│   │   └── new-project.png
│   └── avatars
│       └── ashley-bye.png
├── index.html
├── index.xml
├── page
│   ├── 1
│   │   └── index.html
│   ├── 2
│   │   └── index.html
│   ├── about-me
│   │   └── index.html
│   ├── index.html
│   └── page
│       ├── 1
│       │   └── index.html
│       └── 2
│           └── index.html
├── robots.txt
├── sitemap.xml
└── tags
    ├── ci-cd
    │   └── index.html
    ├── codeship
    │   └── index.html
    ├── digitalocean
    │   └── index.html
    ├── hugo
    │   └── index.html
    └── index.html

In the tags and categories taxonomy pages, I am using {{ range .Data.Pages }} to iterate through associated posts. However, this again does not produce any content for the author.

My theme layout directory includes a taxonomy folder:

./themes/ashleybyeuk/layouts/taxonomy/
├── author.html
├── author.terms.html
├── category.html
├── category.terms.html
├── tag.html
└── tag.terms.html

What is causing this and how should I fix it?

[Mikhail]

@amb85

author: “Ashley Bye”

Have you tried writing in FM like this:

authors: [ "Ashley Bye" ]

[amb85]

[https://tr.cloudmagic.com/h/v6/emailtag/tag/2.0/1514884919/2a29456be1e332107395b56c40088fbd/1/1017689f32c7270f487429ee46c7867d/c748fa08a6eefebf220fc24557f85b6b/86907ac9b49ba2e1e73da0d62b422926/newton.gif]

I did try that, but since I only have one author per post it makes sense to use the singular. It also breaks a bunch of partials where I display the author name and would require a range, which again doesn’t seem to make sense and seems quite hacky.

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[bep]

I suggest you post to this forum via the browser and not that Newton Mail editor.

[Mikhail]

As I understand it, the mechanism for generating taxonomy works only with arrays []. You will have to change the code that you wrote for strings.

[Mikhail]

To access data from an array, you need to use the index function. Just replace {{ .Params.author }} on {{ index .Params.authors 0 }} 0 - first string from array.

[amb85]

Perfect - problem solved, thank you.