Error message with blogdown:::serve_site()

[NicolasRuth]

Hi all,

I am getting an error message (see below) in RStudio, when I use serve_site(). I don't really understand this error since I do not have a partials folder. Can anybody please help me?

Error: Error building site: failed to render pages: render of "term" failed: execute of template failed: template: authors/list.html:19:9: executing "main" at <partial $widget $params>: error calling partial: "/var/folders/tw/bl3ptzw91q34m0w9xlwm00ww0000gn/T/hugo_cache/modules/filecache/modules/pkg/mod/github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-modules/[email protected]/layouts/partials/widgets/about.html:94:19": execute of template failed: template: partials/widgets/about.html:94:19: executing "partials/widgets/about.html" at <.courses>: can't evaluate field courses in type []interface {}

[chrede88]

The partials is a part of the Wowchemy theme. Each time you run hugo or hugo server, one of two things will happen:

1. A fresh version of the theme will be downloaded (as a hugo module)
2. If a cached version exists, hugo will try to build using that.

In your case you're building using a cached version. Try to clean the cache by executing hugo mod clean. This should delete the cached version of the theme and make hugo download a fresh version next time you call hugo or hugo server.

[ygalanak]

even with hugo mod clean, I receive the aforementioned error by @NicolasRuth

[gcushen]

It would be helpful if you can state your Hugo version, Blogdown version, GitHub repo link, and list the steps to reproduce the error (i.e. what were the changes that led to the site no longer building).

Blogdown issues can be reported at https://github.com/rstudio/blogdown/issues

The maintainer of Blogdown has also issued guidance on Blogdown compatibility with recent versions of Hugo: #1845 (comment)