legacy "about" block Variation 2

[nsaphra]

I recently migrated from the old hugo academic system to wowchemy, but I have been disappointed to find I can't easily apply the same layout for the About page as in the old Variation 2. The easiest way to illustrate what I'm saying is that the current version of the About page documentation has Variation 1: https://wowchemy.com/blocks/about/ while the legacy Blocks v1 documentation has multiple variations: https://wowchemy.com/blocks-v1/about/

Is there a way to easily go back to the old About without having to heavily customize my layout? Thanks!

[ilorevilo]

I'm new to wowchemy and stumbled upon the same issue, as I also prefer the v1 design. My fix was following:

• Copy about.html (https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/blob/main/modules/wowchemy/layouts/partials/blocks/v1/about.html) to layouts\partials\blocks\v1 in your repository
• Change $block.Params.author to $block.content.username in about.html
• Switch to the new block by adding/ replacing - block: v1/about in your content/_index.md file.

[lfhackl]

Thank you so much for this extremely helpful comment. I tried to implement this and it compiles correctly, but for some reason it is missing the text and education choices. Therefore, I just wanted to confirm:

• Is the about.html really the only file that I need to copy (I had to create the folders layouts\partials\blocks\v1 myself) or are there some dependencies?
• What is the correct code to provide the information about the content. I tried to use:

block: v1/about
id: about
title: Background
content:
title: Background
interests: # <- I want to rename this into 'work'
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computational Linguistics
- Information Retrieval
username: admin
text: Larum Ipsum and so on...

[ilorevilo]

Great to hear that it helped, I'm also quite new to this 😉

• for me it worked fine as described and the text and interests show up as in the example image.
• the v1/about is not configured to take text input from your content\_index.md file. So text: Larum Ipsum and so on... does not have any influence. (opposite to about.avatar: https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/blob/b9752d697a7bb94de3d085db3988606e138f6657/modules/wowchemy/layouts/partials/blocks/about.avatar.html#L85) Instead, the content is added from authors/admin/_index.html, containing info on interests and education, as well as inserting the content after the header (after ---). So the important point is to specify within content\_index.md:

content:
    username: admin

and then taylor the information in your authors/admin/_index.html as desired.

• to change your interests into 'work', change "interests" to "work" in partials/blocks/v1/about.html (https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/blob/b9752d697a7bb94de3d085db3988606e138f6657/modules/wowchemy/layouts/partials/blocks/v1/about.html#L101)

[lfhackl]

Ah, I understand. Thank you so very much for the quick reply. I had never used the v1, but probably should have checked the documentation better!

[RoboSharkFall]

My repositories is shown as the image now. could you please tell me where I can add theabout.html ?

[ilorevilo]

My repositories is shown as the image now. could you please tell me where I can add theabout.html ?

You need to create the folders layouts\partials\blocks\v1 within the root folder which is shown on your screenshot and place about.html into the v1 folder

[maciekdolega]

I followed these instructions and when I try to compile, I have the following error:

Could not find an author page at /authors/%!s(<nil>). Please check the value of author in your About widget and create an associated author page if one does not already exist. See https://wowchemy.com/docs/page-builder/#about

I modified about.html the way you described. The only change is at the beginning of the file and it looks like that:

`{{/* Wowchemy Blocks: About /}}
{{/ Documentation: https://wowchemy.com/blocks/ /}}
{{/ License: https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/blob/main/LICENSE.md */}}

{{/* Initialise */}}
{{ $page := .wcPage }}
{{ $block := .wcBlock }}

{{ $author := "" }}
{{ if .author }}
{{ $author = .author }}
{{ else }}
{{ $author = $block.content.username }}
{{end}}

{{ $person_page_path := (printf "/authors/%s" $author) }}
{{ $person_page := site.GetPage $person_page_path }}
{{ if not $person_page }}
{{ errorf "Could not find an author page at %s. Please check the value of author in your About widget and create an associated author page if one does not already exist. See https://wowchemy.com/docs/page-builder/#about " $person_page_path }}
{{end}}
{{ $person := $person_page.Params }}
{{ $avatar := ($person_page.Resources.ByType "image").GetMatch "avatar" }}
{{ $avatar_shape := site.Params.features.avatar.shape | default "circle" }}`

Any ideas what causes this error?

[ilorevilo]

it seems like you did not specify the username in content\_index.md:
after specifying the block to - block: v1/about you should also add

content:
    username: admin

(as in the original about.avatar implementation: https://github.com/wowchemy/starter-hugo-academic/blob/81c51e9fa9a0cf47079ba6b96ee30b84715afbff/content/_index.md?plain=1#L42)

[maciekdolega]

I did specify it. Actually something weird happened. I had some content commented. Now, I removed this content and the error disappeared. Then I undid my changes (namely I restored the commented content) and I can still compile the website. Anyway, it's working now (and I have no idea why it was not, before) - thanks.

[SCccc21]

Are there any updates on this issue? I followed the solutions above and got exact the same error.

[SCccc21]

Which are those contents that you commented and then uncommented? I also want to try and see if it helps :(

[SCccc21]

Nevermind -- I got the error fixed as well. I just exit the hugo server and restart, then it works.

[rikrdo89]

Thanks for sharing this! I was struggling for a bit to get my education and interest to show up. Now everything works, except for the title of the "about" section. In the old v1 it used to say Biography or Background. I tried putting title: MyTitle under content/_index.md and content/authors/admin/_index.md without much success.

[rikrdo89]

I actually just fixed it by removing this line and $block.Params.widget from:

`{{ if and $block.Params.widget $block.Title }}<h1>{{ $block.Title | markdownify | emojify }}</h1>{{ end }}`

[ilorevilo]

Great that you found a fix! I think the usage of widget is deprecated, so it makes indeed sense to remove this condition check.
Actually I had the same issue when I set up my example site. My fix was to add <h1>Biography</h1> into the body of content\authors\admin\_index.md with the same result.

[sniperyyc]

I have the same question:

Is the about.html really the only file that I need to copy (I had to create the folders layouts\partials\blocks\v1 myself) or are there some dependencies?

I followed all steps above but got some dependency errors?

parse failed: template: partials/blocks/v1/about.html:808: function "className" not defined