Error when building site

[sandiegoan]

Hello, I've cloned this theme and copied the default site into my content folder. When trying to render the site the following error displays:

ERROR 2020/06/22 22:43:20 render of "page" failed: execute of template failed: template: _default/single.html:12:10: executing "_default/single.html" at <partial "single_article" .>: error calling partial: execute of template failed: template: partials/single_article.html:12:9: executing "partials/single_article.html" at <partial "article_footer" .>: error calling partial: "/usr/local/bin/quickstart/themes/hugo-travelify-theme/layouts/partials/article_footer.html:19:105": execute of template failed: template: partials/article_footer.html:19:105: executing "partials/article_footer.html" at <$date_format>: invalid value; expected string

I searched through the solved issues but couldn't find any similar postings. Thank you very much!

[balaramadurai]

Hello @sandiegoan Thank you for trying out this theme and I am sorry you ran into this problem. I am also thankful to you for reporting this as an issue on github.

I tried the following steps:

hugo new site test
cd test/themes
git clone https://github.com/balaramadurai/hugo-travelify-theme
cd ..
cp -r themes/hugo-travelify-theme/exampleSite/* .
hugo server

Now, I point my browser to http://localhost:1313.

It seemed to work fine. I can't replicate your error.

But, my guess is that there may be something wrong in your config.toml file.

In the config.toml file, the value of date_format should have double quotes before and after the value

like so,

date_format = "02 January, 2006"

Check this out for various date formats - https://gohugo.io/functions/format/#hugo-date-and-time-templating-reference

Thanks and please do let me know how this works out for you.

Bala