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I recently migrated from the old hugo academic system to wowchemy, but I have been disappointed to find I can't easily apply the same layout for the About page as in the old Variation 2. The easiest way to illustrate what I'm saying is that the current version of the About page documentation has Variation 1: https://wowchemy.com/blocks/about/ while the legacy Blocks v1 documentation has multiple variations: https://wowchemy.com/blocks-v1/about/ Is there a way to easily go back to the old About without having to heavily customize my layout? Thanks! |
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I'm new to wowchemy and stumbled upon the same issue, as I also prefer the v1 design. My fix was following:
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I followed these instructions and when I try to compile, I have the following error: Could not find an author page at I modified about.html the way you described. The only change is at the beginning of the file and it looks like that: `{{/* Wowchemy Blocks: About /}} {{/* Initialise */}} {{ $author := "" }} {{ $person_page_path := (printf "/authors/%s" $author) }} Any ideas what causes this error? |
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Thanks for sharing this! I was struggling for a bit to get my education and interest to show up. Now everything works, except for the title of the "about" section. In the old v1 it used to say Biography or Background. I tried putting |
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I have the same question:
I followed all steps above but got some dependency errors?
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I'm new to wowchemy and stumbled upon the same issue, as I also prefer the v1 design. My fix was following:
about.html
(https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/blob/main/modules/wowchemy/layouts/partials/blocks/v1/about.html) tolayouts\partials\blocks\v1
in your repository$block.Params.author
to$block.content.username
inabout.html
- block: v1/about
in yourcontent/_index.md
file.