.Site.Params not working at all, any suggestions?

[dbob16]

I’m trying to rebuild my site and when I try to pass in custom variables added in hugo.toml, it wasn’t working. So I passed in just the following to see what I got:

{{ .Site.Params }}

Hugo returned the following on the page:

map[]

If I pass in just {{ .Params }} for the page params, I get the following:

map[date:2023-11-23 11:34:45 -0500 EST draft:false iscjklanguage:false lastmod:2023-11-23 11:34:45 -0500 EST menu:map[main:map[weight:1]] publishdate:2023-11-23 11:34:45 -0500 EST title:Home]

So for some odd reason Hugo is not letting me access site parameters. Very odd, its worked before in the same context.

[UtkarshVerma]

Weird, that should work. Have you used the correct key for params in hugo.toml?

[bep]

@dbob16

{{ .Site.Params }}

This means that you haven’t configured any site params (or your configuration setup is not correct).

See Params | Hugo for an example.

Of course, if you could show us your hugo.toml file it would be easier to help you.

[dbob16]

Thanks, I think I figured it out from the doc link you put in.

I wasn’t nesting the custom params I wanted to use under the [params] section. So my params had to go from:

baseURL = 'https://example.org/'
languageCode = 'en-US'
title = "example"
author = 'example'
sitelogo = '/pics/header.webp'
copyrightyear = '2023'

To:

baseURL = 'https://example.org/'
languageCode = 'en-US'
title = "example"
[params]
    author = 'example'
    sitelogo = '/pics/header.webp'
    copyrightyear = '2023'

That seemed to work. Calling {{ .Site.Params }} in a layouts/partial file started returning “map[author=‘example’…]” and I’m able to call {{ .Site.Params.author }} for example and it returns what’s set in that param.

I think it’s a case of me trying to do things by memory, and I must have remembered wrongly about how to put in custom site parameters.