Question - Archive layout items

[dpron]

I'm using jekyll-archives and am trying to get the archive-taxonomy layout to include the author sidebar as well as a default header image.

Unfortunately, when I set author_profile: true, it doesn't include the author sidebar.

I also tried adding the block of includes around page__hero that is present in other layouts, but it doesn't seem to pick up the values from adding header:/image: to the yaml of the archive-taxonomy.html layout.

Any hints?

[mmistakes]

Where were you adding author_profile: true? I just did a test and by changing author_profile: false to true in _layouts/archive-taxonomy.html, the side bar for all the pages Jekyll Archives creates shows up.

To use the page__hero include with the archive-taxonomy.html layout you'll need to do some customizing. That include is pulling in values from a post/page's YAML Front Matter. If you add YAML Front Matter to the layout that's not really page data as far as Jekyll is concerned but layout data.

For example if in archive-taxonomy.html you have:

layout: default
author_profile: true
your_variable: "Some data here."

To access it you'd use {{ layout.your_variable }}. So in theory you'd have to modify all of the page.header variables in the page-hero.html include to use layout.header instead.

I haven't worked much with layout variables but I have seen a lot of weird behaviors with them. Depending on which version of Jekyll you're using it may or may not work... and/or inherit properly in other layouts. Just something to be mindful of.

[dpron]

Yup, I changed author_profile from false to true and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

If it matters, here's my archives section from _config.yml

# Archives
#  Type
#  - GitHub Pages compatible archive pages built with Liquid ~> type: liquid (default)
#  - Jekyll Archives plugin archive pages ~> type: jekyll-archives
#  Path (examples)
#  - Archive page should exist at path when using Liquid method or you can
#    expect broken links (especially with breadcrumbs enabled)
#  - <base_path>/tags/my-awesome-tag/index.html ~> path: /tags/
#  - <base_path/categories/my-awesome-category/index.html ~> path: /categories/
#  - <base_path/my-awesome-category/index.html ~> path: /
#categories:
#  type: jekyll-archives
#  path: /categories/
#tags:
#  type: jekyll-archives
#  path: /tags/
# https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-archives
jekyll-archives:
  enabled:
    - categories
    - tags
  layouts:
    category: archive-taxonomy
    tag: archive-taxonomy
  permalinks:
    category: /categories/:name/
    tag: /tags/:name/

[dpron]

Also, if it matters - versions: jekyll 3.1.3, jekyll-archives 2.1.0

[mmistakes]

Not sure if this will make a difference but you forgot to uncomment a few things.. specifically the categories and tags options. This is what I used in my quick test.

# Archives
#  Type
#  - GitHub Pages compatible archive pages built with Liquid ~> type: liquid (default)
#  - Jekyll Archives plugin archive pages ~> type: jekyll-archives
#  Path (examples)
#  - Archive page should exist at path when using Liquid method or you can
#    expect broken links (especially with breadcrumbs enabled)
#  - <base_path>/tags/my-awesome-tag/index.html ~> path: /tags/
#  - <base_path/categories/my-awesome-category/index.html ~> path: /categories/
#  - <base_path/my-awesome-category/index.html ~> path: /
categories:
  type: jekyll-archives
  path: /categories/
tags:
  type: jekyll-archives
  path: /tags/
# https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-archives
jekyll-archives:
  enabled:
    - categories
    - tags
  layouts:
    category: archive-taxonomy
    tag: archive-taxonomy
  permalinks:
    category: /categories/:name/
    tag: /tags/:name/

Do you have a public repo somewhere that I could look at? It's probably something simple you're missing as I was able to get it working without much effort.

[dpron]

Yes - I just put it up here: https://github.com/dpron/dpron.com-2016

[mmistakes]

Ok figured it out. As mentioned up a few responses page.author_profile won't work because archive-taxonomy.html is a layout and not a page.

The conditional that evaluates author_profile was only looking for it in the page. I added some additional or clauses to the conditional and that brings it in. If you want to fix it now without waiting for me to update the theme do the following:

1. In author-taxonomy.html YAML Front Matter flip to true... author_profile: true.
2. Change _includes/sidebar.html to the following (line 3 and 5 changed)

{% include base_path %}

{% if page.author_profile or layout.author_profile or page.sidebar %}
  <div class="sidebar sticky">
  {% if page.author_profile or layout.author_profile %}{% include author-profile.html %}{% endif %}
  {% if page.sidebar %}
    {% for s in page.sidebar %}
      {% if s.image %}
        <img src=
        {% if s.image contains "http" %}
          "{{ s.image }}"
        {% else %}
          "{{ s.image | prepend: "/images/" | prepend: base_path }}"
        {% endif %}
        alt="{% if s.image_alt %}{{ s.image_alt }}{% endif %}">
      {% endif %}
      {% if s.title %}<h3>{{ s.title }}</h3>{% endif %}
      {% if s.text %}{{ s.text | markdownify }}{% endif %}
    {% endfor %}
    {% if page.sidebar.nav %}
      {% include nav_list nav=page.sidebar.nav %}
    {% endif %}
  {% endif %}
  </div>
{% endif %}

Thanks for helping to identify this bug. 😄

[dpron]

Thanks! I wonder why it worked on your test above though?

Always glad to help find bugs

[mmistakes]

Could have been the version of Jekyll I was using. When I tried your repo you had a newer version that I updated to. I know at one point YAML Front Matter in a layout worked with {{ page.var }} but that was a bug and it was fixed eventually.

That's probably why I didn't notice it originally.