I ran zola init and then followed the directions for the Even theme and I got the following error:

$ zola serve
Building site...
-> Creating 1 pages (0 orphan), 0 sections, and processing 0 images
Error: Failed to render page 'zola-blog/content/first_post.md'
Reason: Failed to render 'even/templates/page.html'
Reason: `get_taxonomy_url` received an unknown taxonomy as kind: tags

Here is a gist of all the files I created. https://gist.github.com/pianomanfrazier/9f76f42ee77f544bbb6ddfa11a5ad255

I am not sure how to fix the error. I have the taxonomy tags defined in my config.toml and then in /content/first_post.md I define some tags.

Using zola 0.7.0

I would like to change the color of inline code. I see it is hard coded in sass/site.scss as $code-colour with a TODO note to allow customization. My knowledge of webdev is close to 0, is there a way to go around that in the meantime short of forking the repository and change the hard-coded value?

I have a few pages with draft = true in their front matter, and it breaks in templates/index.html with the following error:

Error: Failed to render page '/../my-blog/content/my-draft-article.md'
Reason: Failed to render 'even/templates/page.html'
Reason: `get_taxonomy_url`: couldn't find `TIL` in `tags` taxonomy

Not sure if this is an error in the get_taxonomy_url helper method or in this theme, but it looks like tags on pages in draft state, do not get added to the global taxonomies object.

The file blog/themes/even/static/cat_demo_img.jpg is meant to be an example picture and as such should not be part of the template. Unfortunately zola build copies this image file into blog/public where it ends up on the web-server. I suggest to remove blog/themes/even/static/cat_demo_img.jpg.

#33 introduced an issue where words overflow:

See these words: building, build, and nix.

If I don't specify a template for a section, the site fails to build with the error message:

Reason: Template 'even/templates/section.html' not found

My directory structure is

content/
    posts/
        _index.md
        some_post.md
    about/
        _index.md

but the build fails for any template I use in _index.md because it's missing something i.e. paginator.page, category.name, etc.

I have recently started using Zola as the main tool for setting up a new web site with its own template. In general, I have found that it is a breeze to develop a new template in Zola compared to Hugo. The scripting language does (mostly) what you ask it to do making it easier to get a good result.

However, I have run into some few problems here and there with unclear and insufficient error messages. I will list some of them here:

1. Orphaned pages
   In my first experiments, I frequently had Orphaned pages because the front matter had not been set or it has been set incorrectly. The error messages is just that "there are 23 orphaned pages". Is it be possible to get a list of all the orphaned pages when building? This will make it easier to pin-point the source of the problem(s).

2. Indirect error message without clear source
   I recently changes the section template and then got the following error message

-> Template changed .../templates/section.html
Reloading only template
Error: Failed to build the site
Error: Failed to render pager 1
Error: Reason: Failed to render 'section.html': error while rendering macro `post_macros::title`
Error: Reason: Filter call 'date' failed
Error: Reason: Filter `date` received an incorrect type for arg `value`: got `Null` but expected i64|u64|String
Done in 16ms.

The message error is clear :-), but there are no indications about which file was the underlying cause for the error. It would be great if there is a way to improve the error messages.

3. Import of macros
   I believe that import of macros should be done at the start of the [template] file (I am not sure if this is clarified in the documentation for either Zola or Tera).
   In any case, if you import a macro in the middle of a file, you get an error message like

Error: Failed to build the site
Error: 
* Failed to parse "/home/carsten/web/zola/themes/std/templates/base.html"
  --> 57:3
   |
57 |   {% import "macros/title_or_dir.html" as tord %}
   |   ^---
   |
   = unexpected tag; expected end of input or some content

Could error message be improved so that there is a hint saying the import of macros should be done at the beginning of the file.

Otherwise, I really like Zola - THANKS!

Bug Report

Environment

Zola version: 0.16.0 (Linux, binary used from zola-v0.16.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz)

Expected Behavior

Footer should have links to previous/next posts.

Current Behavior

Footer doesn't show links to previous/next posts. This issue isn't seen in versions v0.15.3 and below.

Step to reproduce

Failing case:

$ git clone https://github.com/getzola/even.git
$ cd even/
$ zola --version
zola 0.16.0
$ zola serve

As an example, screenshot for "Tenth post" is shown below (footer has only the tags, no navigation links to previous/next posts):

Passing case:

$ zola --version
zola 0.15.0
$ zola serve

Screenshot (footer has expected navigation links):

The template refers to a paginator.pages variable which apparently isn't defined in a default Zola installation (Zola 0.7.0 on macOS Mojave) :

Error: Failed to render section '[[redacted]]/content/_index.md'
Reason: Failed to render 'even/templates/index.html'
Reason: Variable `paginator.pages` not found in context while rendering 'even/templates/index.html'

With RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable:

thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Error { kind: Msg("Failed to render section \'[[redacted]]/content/_index.md\'"), source: Some(Error { kind: Tera(Error { kind: Msg("Failed to render \'even/templates/index.html\'"), source: Some(Error { kind: Msg("Variable `paginator.pages` not found in context while rendering \'even/templates/index.html\'"), source: None }) }), source: None }) }', src/libcore/result.rs:997:5
stack backtrace:
   0: std::sys::unix::backtrace::tracing::imp::unwind_backtrace
   1: std::sys_common::backtrace::print
   2: std::panicking::default_hook::{{closure}}
   3: std::panicking::default_hook
   4: std::panicking::rust_panic_with_hook
   5: std::panicking::continue_panic_fmt
   6: rust_begin_unwind
   7: core::panicking::panic_fmt
   8: core::result::unwrap_failed
   9: zola::cmd::serve::serve
  10: zola::main
  11: std::rt::lang_start::{{closure}}
  12: std::panicking::try::do_call
  13: __rust_maybe_catch_panic
  14: std::rt::lang_start_internal
  15: main

I am puzzled by what 'page.category' would be in the post_macros template. This is the code in the repo.

{% if page.category %}
  <div class="post__category">
    <a href="{{ get_taxonomy_url(kind="category", name=page.category) }}">{{ page.category }}</a>
  </div>
{% endif %}

But I suspect that this is supposed to be displaying the categories taxonomy outlined elsewhere in the theme and should in fact be more like this, no?

{% if page.taxonomies.categories %}
   <div class="post__category">
      {% for category in page.taxonomies.categories %}
         <a href="{{ get_taxonomy_url(kind="categories", name=category) }}">{{ category }}</a>
       {% endfor %}
  </div>
{% endif %}

Think of the children you monster

Hello!

I very much enjoy the Even theme for Zola, but I recently found that by default, it uses jsdelivr and cloudflare to deliver some of its needed scripts. For user privacy reasons, I would like to change this, so that it instead serves the script locally.

The line especially relevant for me (since my site does not use the maths stuff) is this:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/slideout/1.0.1/slideout.min.js"></script>

Since I am not familiar with web languages, could you kindly point me to the right syntax to use if I want to serve this file locally?

Thank you in advance!

P.S. I would also be very very happy if you could modify the theme to behave in this way by default, since this is an unnecessary violation of users' privacy.

When no categories are being used in any post, the /categories page will not be rendered.

With even theme used, the background of code blocks isn't changing, when highlight_theme is changed.

Is there a way to fix this? Currently, code blocks are almost impossible to read.

I just discovered, that the Even theme renders badly on Windows:
the Logo is rendered in "Comic Sans", the headlines are rendered in "YaHei" a sans serif font. I suppose this is not what you indented, because the Even screenshots show a different design.

One possibility to avoid this, is Google Fonts an Open Fond collection.
My favorites at the moment are: PT Sans for headlines and PT Serif for the text body. See my blog as an example.

I use utteranc.es as my blog's comment system. But the theme only provide block page_before_footer so I can only insert comments before navigation anchors. But I want comments to be put after navigation anchors. Is it suitable to add a page_after_footer block?

I started from scratch and enabled Katex and tried an example

{% katex(block=true) %}
\begin{matrix}
   a & b \\
   c & d
\end{matrix}
{% end %} 

that renders correctly when entered into the "Type an expression:" box on https://katex.org/. But when I build and server my site, instead of '&' being used for alignment they are rendered as amp;:

I am able render correctly things like A_{ij} = ...

Is this a bug or a configuration issue on my side?