Render of "section" failed -- cannot find the template that has the error

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Since upgrading from 0.111 to 0.120 I’m getting this error

ERROR render of "section" failed: template: _internal/_default/rss.xml:3:9: executing "_internal/_default/rss.xml" at <site>: can't evaluate field email in type string
ERROR render of "term" failed: template: _internal/_default/rss.xml:3:9: executing "_internal/_default/rss.xml" at <site>: can't evaluate field email in type string
ERROR render of "taxonomy" failed: template: _internal/_default/rss.xml:3:9: executing "_internal/_default/rss.xml" at <site>: can't evaluate field email in type string
Built in 170 ms
Error: error building site: render: failed to render pages: render of "section" failed: template: _internal/_default/rss.xml:3:9: executing "_internal/_default/rss.xml" at <site>: can't evaluate field email in type string

but I don’t know where to find _internal/_default/rss.xml to see where the problem lies. I’ve installed hugo via macos homebrew.

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Yeah, I broke this. Sorry about the hassle. I think you have a configuration that I (naively) was not expecting.

Please confirm that you have something like this in your site configuration:

[params]
author = 'jdoe'

Are you using a theme, if so which one?

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I do not have an [author] section, just an author declaration under [params]. I’m using the learn theme (GitHub - matcornic/hugo-theme-learn: Porting Grav Learn theme to Hugo).

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Does the value of the author field appear anywhere on your site?

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It does, the learn theme has it in a partial, and through that it appears as <meta name="author" content="my name"> on every page.

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So, that theme is no longer maintained.

Two options…

  1. Comment out the author param in your site configuration. It won’t appear in the meta tag, but that’s not a factor in search engine optimization.

  2. Override themes/hugo-theme-learn/layouts/partials/meta.html:

mkdir -p layouts/partials
cp themes/hugo-theme-learn/layouts/partials/meta.html layouts/partials

Then change this:

.Site.Params.author

to

site.Params.author.name

And in your site configuration do this:

[params.author]
name = 'jdoe'               # optional
email = 'jdoe@example.org'  # optional

Again, sorry for the trouble.

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Fantastic – no trouble, I appreciate the help! Is there a learn derivative that is still in maintenance? learn had a few features I really appreciated.

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Maybe. I looked through the theme’s issue queue to see if anyone has mentioned an alternative; no luck.

You could create a new issue, asking the same question. I’m sure others have transitioned to other themes. It’s unfortunate that is no longer maintained.

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Just found this:
https://github.com/McShelby/hugo-theme-relearn

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I’m going to give that a go, thanks!

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And the author has already made the changes to avoid breakage. It looks very well maintained.

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The theme author is @McShelby.

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Just to note I installed the Ananke theme as per the quickstart and hit the same issue.

Commenting out the Author in the [params] section allowed the site to build.

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author is kind of a reserved keyword or something? And any other keywords, we should avoid?

Thanks

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Found the details in Release v0.120.0 · gohugoio/hugo · GitHub.
Thanks

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For information : same with Ananke theme https://github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke/tree/master/layouts/partials , change in layout/_default/single to do as here described.

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