Range block not rendering grouped list on homepage

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I’m using Hugo Static Site Generator v0.62.0/extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate: unknown from Homebrew and I’m trying to group posts by date and limit those posts to the first 10 day’s worth of posts on the home page.

I can’t get this working and end up with a single post rendered by my single.html and not my home index.html. This single post is the 30th newest post and not the latest and I can’t explain how this is selected either.

A simplified version of what I’m doing is this:

  • In mytheme/layouts/_default/baseof.html I have a {{ block "main" . }}{{ end }}

  • In mytheme/layouts/index.html I have the following:

    {{ define "main" }}
    <ul class="post-list">
    {{ range first 10 (( where .Site.RegularPages "Type" "post" ).GroupByDate "2 Jan 2006") }}
      <li><div class="post-meta">{{ .Key }}</div>
      {{ range .Pages }}
      <ul class="post-list">
        <li>
          <h2>
            <a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a>
          </h2>
        </li>
      {{ end }}
    {{ end }}
    </ul>
{{ end }}

This for some reason renders only the single post I mentioned earlier.

If I move the {{ range first 10...}} section from mytheme/layouts/index.html into mytheme/layouts/_default/baseof.html, I get the posts as I expect.

What am I doing wrong or missing here?

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Hi there,

It’s difficult to say without seeing the rest of your site code. Other than a missing closlng </ul> it looks like it should work. Do you have a repo somewhere we can have a look at?

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Whoops, I should have included that in the OP. The code can be seen at https://github.com/lildude/hugo-minima-dude - I’m in the process of porting one of my Jekyll themes to Hugo.

I’ve also tried dropping the block of code into a few other themes and get the same behaviour.

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You don’t seem to have any content?

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Ooops, sorry I didn’t think content would be needed. I’ve added the copy of hugoBasicExample I’m using to test this to the repo and symlinked to the base dir for the theme.

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I’ve made a new discovery… this is possibly a caching issue, though I have no idea why or how to fix it.

I’ve just cloned my repo to a new location and started hugo serve --disableFastRender --ignoreCache, and I get the behaviour I expect. :tada:

I then stopped the new copy and started my original using the same command and I get the unexpected behaviour.

I then stopped the old copy started my new copy and I get the unexpected behaviour.

So something is being cached somewhere.

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Woohoo!! Finally worked it out.

I made a mistake in my previous post - when I ran the server of the new clone, I left off --disableFastRender so found the in both my original and copy I got the bad behaviour with that flag, but not without.

That aside, I think I’ve found the ultimate cause… several of my posts don’t have titles and the one and only post that shows when I hit the issue is the first post without a title in the frontmatter. As soon as I added a title, things consistently display correctly.

Sorry about the noise and thanks for responding @pointyfar