Problem with: blogdown::new_site(theme = "gcushen/hugo-academic")

[TimDominikMaurer]

Whenever I am trying to run blogdown::new_site(theme = "gcushen/hugo-academic") in RStudio I get the following Error:

Error: "C:\Users\tima.eco\OneDrive - Copenhagen Business School\Studium\PhD\Personal-Website\content\home\demo.md:39:1": failed to extract shortcode: template for shortcode "alert" not found
Error: "C:\Users\tima.eco\OneDrive - Copenhagen Business School\Studium\PhD\Personal-Website\content\home\demo.md:39:1": failed to extract shortcode: template for shortcode "alert" not found
Error: "C:\Users\tima.eco\OneDrive - Copenhagen Business School\Studium\PhD\Personal-Website\content\home\demo.md:39:1": failed to extract shortcode: template for shortcode "alert" not found
Error in shell(cmd, mustWork = TRUE, intern = intern) : 
  '"C:\Users\tima.eco\AppData\Roaming\Hugo\hugo.exe" convert toYAML --unsafe' execution failed with error code 65535
In addition: There were 27 warnings (use warnings() to see them)

Do you have an idea how I can solve this problem? Thanks in advance

[erikriverson]

@TimDominikMaurer try this now:

blogdown::new_site(theme = "wowchemy/starter-academic")

[LunaSare]

@erikriverson thanks for the post! Maybe @yihui also have some suggestions?

I am having trouble with generating a new site with blogdown, and also with rendering old sites I have generated using the hugo-academic theme. I posted my issue on stackoverflow 2 days ago: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63931103/hugo-academic-website-rendered-unformatted-using-blogdownserve-site

I successfully used blogdown::new_site(theme = "wowchemy/starter-academic", dir = "/Users/luna/my_site") to generate a new site, as you suggested. However, doing blogdown::serve_site() is giving me:

Error: Error building site: "/Users/luna/my_site/content/home/demo.md:39:1": failed to extract shortcode: template for shortcode "alert" not found

I also tried reinstalling the theme with blogdown::install_theme(theme = "wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-modules", force = TRUE) but the same error appears.

I sense that my hugo academic theme installation is failing but I don't know what to do next. Would you have any suggestions? I know you are busy people, I really appreciate any thought you could have on this. Thanks in advance!

[erikriverson]

@LunaSare From your site's directory, try

hugo mod get github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-modules/wowchemy

You will need the Go binary installed for your operating system for this to work.

[gcushen]

Please try the official installation guide.

The official installation instructions are here: https://wowchemy.com/docs/install/ To edit on PC see the official guide at https://wowchemy.com/docs/install-locally/

Note there are reports from other Blogdown users with the alternative blogdown::new_site approach you are using that Blogdown might be buggy and not fully support recent versions of Hugo, specifically Hugo Modules and monorepo module functionality. If you were to try installing via Blogdown rather than the official approach, the command would be something like blogdown::new_site(dir = "website",theme="wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-modules/wowchemy") - consider reporting any Blogdown bugs in the Blogdown Github repo.

[yihui]

@TimDominikMaurer @LunaSare @erikriverson I'll appreciate it if you could try the development version of blogdown, in which I have tried to provide a fix:

remotes::install_github('rstudio/blogdown')

The original command blogdown::new_site(theme = "gcushen/hugo-academic") should work now.

If you were to try installing via Blogdown rather than the official approach, the command would be something like blogdown::new_site(dir = "website",theme="wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-modules/wowchemy") - consider reporting any Blogdown bugs in the Blogdown Github repo.

@gcushen That won't work. new_site() doesn't support theme = "user/repo/subfolder".

I still need to learn more about this new "Hugo modules". It might be great for theme or Go developers, but from the perspective of an average user, I feel it's a rather unfortunate decision to move to Hugo modules, because it requires Go and GIT if we want to preview or edit the site locally. One of the greatest advantage of Hugo used to be that it is a single binary without dependencies. Now with Hugo modules, this is no longer true.

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents. I'll just follow your steps (and Hugo's) and try to accommodate these changes on my side as quickly as possible. Thanks!

[LunaSare]

Thanks @yihui, installing the development version of blogdown fixed it!

Fyi, the site was rendering correctly once published, it just wasn't rendering locally with serve_site(). Thought I'd mention it in case it is useful information for anyone.

[yihui]

@LunaSare Great! Please feel free to file an issue to the blogdown repo to describe the problem with serve_site() in more detail. Thank you!

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