Serve authors overview page from "/author/" not "/authors/"

[mrustl]

Describe the bug

Authors overview page is still located in https://academic-demo.netlify.app/authors/ but page for each author now served from https://academic-demo.netlify.app/author/robert-ford.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to 'https://academic-demo.netlify.app/authors/' to see authors overview page

2. Click on 'Robert Ford' opens at: https://academic-demo.netlify.app/author/robert-ford

3. No authors overview page at: https://academic-demo.netlify.app/author/

Expected behavior

Authors overview page should be also available at: https://academic-demo.netlify.app/author/

which is currently not the case and inconsistent with previous behavior in former hugo-academic versions (e.g. v4.8), where both where served from .../authors/.

Technical details:

Your Netlifly deploy (https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/blob/14839190f693c19969000d451e6308dd3f92586e/netlify.toml).

[gcushen]

Appears to be a limitation of Hugo - raised a Hugo issue at https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/7274

[gcushen]

Closing this as it appears to be a limitation/bug in Hugo. For any users affected, I suggest upvoting and/or commenting on gohugoio/hugo#7274 .

[mrustl]

So would it not be better to roll-back to "plural" (i.e. "authors") as long as the upstream bug hasn`t been fixed?

[mitchellolsthoorn]

It is actually possible to override the section names by using the url option. In the example below:

config/_default/config.yaml:

permalinks:
  authors: "author/:slug/"
  ... <existing permalinks>

content/authors/_index.md:

---
url: author
... <existing metadata>

both the archive page and the individual author pages are singular. The reverse can also be done for the project and publication sections to make them plural