# Wowchemy academic website doesnt work anymore

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/wowchemy-academic-website-doesnt-work-anymore/52386>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [November 11, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/wowchemy-academic-website-doesnt-work-anymore/52386 "2024-11-11T19:11:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![serkankocabas](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/serkankocabas/32/23311_2.png) [@serkankocabas](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/serkankocabas)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/wowchemy-academic-website-doesnt-work-anymore/52386/1 "2024-11-11T19:11:28Z")

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Dear all, I hope you are well. I am trying to deploy my website with some modifications, it was working before around January but 2 days, I wanted to deploy some new informations and I am receiving errors, for instance this is the error I am getting at the moment : Run hugo --minify  
WARN deprecated: site config key paginate was deprecated in Hugo v0.128.0 and will be removed in a future release. Use pagination.pagerSize instead.  
hugo: downloading modules …  
hugo: collected modules in 4915 ms  
Start building sites …  
hugo v0.138.0-ad82998d54b3f9f8c2741b67356813b55b3134b9+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2024-11-06T11:22:34Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

WARN In `params.yaml`, you requested `theme_night: Earth` but there is not a `dark` style in `data/themes/earth.toml`. Falling back to default dark style.  
ERROR deprecated: .Site.GoogleAnalytics was deprecated in Hugo v0.120.0 and will be removed in Hugo 0.139.0. Use .Site.Config.Services.GoogleAnalytics.ID instead.  
ERROR deprecated: data.GetCSV was deprecated in Hugo v0.123.0 and will be removed in Hugo 0.139.0. use resources.Get or resources.GetRemote with transform.Unmarshal.  
ERROR render of “page” failed: “/tmp/hugo\_cache\_runner/modules/filecache/modules/pkg/mod/github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/modules/wowchemy/v5@v5.7.1-0.20230420205746-951c7b6f709d/layouts/\_default/baseof.html:11:403”: execute of template failed: template: landing/single.html:11:403: executing “landing/single.html” at \<.File.UniqueID\>: can’t evaluate field File in type \*source.File  
ERROR render of “section” failed: “/tmp/hugo\_cache\_runner/modules/filecache/modules/pkg/mod/github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/modules/wowchemy/v5@v5.7.1-0.20230420205746-951c7b6f709d/layouts/\_default/baseof.html:11:403”: execute of template failed: template: section/post.html:11:403: executing “section/post.html” at \<.File.UniqueID\>: can’t evaluate field File in type \*source.File  
ERROR render of “section” failed: “/tmp/hugo\_cache\_runner/modules/filecache/modules/pkg/mod/github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/modules/wowchemy/v5@v5.7.1-0.20230420205746-951c7b6f709d/layouts/\_default/baseof.html:11:403”: execute of template failed: template: section/publication.html:11:403: executing “section/publication.html” at \<.File.UniqueID\>: can’t evaluate field File in type \*source.File  
Total in 5788 ms  
Error: error building site: render: failed to render pages: render of “home” failed: “/tmp/hugo\_cache\_runner/modules/filecache/modules/pkg/mod/github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/modules/wowchemy/v5@v5.7.1-0.20230420205746-951c7b6f709d/layouts/\_default/baseof.html:11:403”: execute of template failed: template: index.html:11:403: executing “index.html” at \<.File.UniqueID\>: can’t evaluate field File in type \*source.File  
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Some people told me to change the hugo version to old version which I was using, so it could work but I dont know where to edit, would you help me with this? this is my repository: [GitHub - serkankocabas/serkankocabas.github.io](https://github.com/serkankocabas/serkankocabas.github.io)

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**Author:** ![irkode](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/irkode/32/26135_2.png) [@irkode](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/irkode)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/wowchemy-academic-website-doesnt-work-anymore/52386/2 "2024-11-11T19:56:57Z")

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Looks like the same issue as your previous topic

> [@Wowchemy website doesnt update anymore](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/wowchemy-website-doesnt-update-anymore/52368):
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> Dear all, I was using wowchemy to build my academic website. The last update was on January more or less. Yesterday, I wanted to update but I cannot change anything on it. This is my repository of interest : [GitHub - serkankocabas/serkankocabas.github.io](https://github.com/serkankocabas/serkankocabas.github.io) . I have this error most of the time : The following actions use a deprecated Node.js version and will be forced to run on node20: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2, actions/cache@v3, actions/configure-pages@v3. For more info: [GitHub Actions; All Action…](https://github.blog/changelog/2024-03-07-github-actions-all-actions-will-run-on-node20-instead-of-node16-by-default/)

Or did I miss something.some hints:

First try to get the build locally runing and  
Install the older version using the method for your os. There’s a page install hugo in the docs

Second you have two workflows running. One builds with jekyll. Why?

Third in the task setup huge theres the version set to 138. So you know where to change 😉

Fourth wowchemy is special. Thats why @jmooring pointed you to your support.

My recommendation  
Start with point one locally…

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**Author:** ![serkankocabas](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/serkankocabas/32/23311_2.png) [@serkankocabas](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/serkankocabas)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/wowchemy-academic-website-doesnt-work-anymore/52386/3 "2024-11-11T20:06:58Z")

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Thank you so much for your comments, I was missing some files such as publish yaml, import publications yml etc , I copied them from hug blox and modified the version as the old one ‘0.111.3’ and now its working. I am not very good at this but I dont why it was working before without those files, maybe it was running with gh-pages and I didnt need those files? Now, its running from main and its working. To be honest, I dont know why its using jekyll and how. Again thank you for your comments and I will try to become more efficient with time.

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**Author:** ![jmooring](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/jmooring/32/4214_2.png) [@jmooring](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/jmooring)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/wowchemy-academic-website-doesnt-work-anymore/52386/4 "2024-11-12T14:24:13Z")

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Archived on November 12, 2024, 2:24pm UTC