Please change the default baseURL

[jmooring]

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https://github.com/zeon-studio/hugoplate/blob/main/exampleSite/hugo.toml#L3

Please change this to something like https://example.org/. I can't count the number of times a config like this has caused problems in the wild.

[tfsomrat]

Hey @jmooring, thanks for your concern. If I change the baseURL to something like this, then all the users of this template are forced to change their baseURL to deploy their website. and I have got too many issues about the broken site because they did not change their baseURL. so I choose to use baseURL like this. at least it deploys their site properly.

[jmooring]

all the users of this template are forced to change their baseURL to deploy their website

Which is what they should be doing in the first place.

[tfsomrat]

Yes, I can understand. but most of the cases they didn't do it, and create an issue about the site is broken. that's why I choose to use the baseURL as "/". and then I asked the user to use their own baseURL when deploying. https://github.com/zeon-studio/hugoplate/blob/f994a8b6e66e8f751bb789c960ad31a5cc894b98/readme.md?plain=1#L206

[jmooring]

You can obviously do what you want, but this practice is not helpful to the Hugo community at large.

[tfsomrat]

Hi, I think about the issue, and came up with a new idea. I have added an announcement to the demo, and it says user needs to change the baseURL, so no one missed the guideline.

you can also check the live demo here https://hugoplate.netlify.app/