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title: "Humble Beginnings"
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date: 2017-12-21
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lastmod: 2019-01-16
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categories: ["Blog"]
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tags: ["code"]
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---
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After running into too many road blocks I've decided to go with
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the [**Tranquilpeak**](https://github.com/kakawait/hugo-tranquilpeak-theme)
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theme for this site. Before this, I was really looking forward to using
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the [**Tracks**](https://github.com/ageekymonk/hugo-tracks-theme) theme (ported
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from WordPress)
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<!--more-->
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# Disclaimer
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{{< admonition warning "Out of Date" >}}
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The information in this article is **out-of-date**. I am, and have been, using my
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own fork of the [hugo-even-theme](https://gitlab.com/bdebyl/hugo-theme-even) on
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my [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/bdebyl) profile.
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{{< /admonition >}}
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---
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If you want a general overview, feel free to check out the
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relevant
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[commit](https://github.com/bdebyl/hugo-tracks-theme/commit/86ca4963c4d0a67ddb1560197c91617e7d3e3754) on
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my GitHub fork of the **Tracks** theme.
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# Rough Start
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Right off the bat I noticed the navigation bar seemed a bit off, to say the least:
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<center></center>
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The links showed as numbers and pointed to `/0`, `/1`, and `/2`
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respectively. These, of course, lead to 404s. It didn't seem like the intended
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behavior, so I kept digging. Eventually, I found out the problem lied in the
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usage of the `.Site.Sections` variable used in a loop to populare items in the
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page header.
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> **.Site.Sections**
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>
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> top-level directories of the site.
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\- [Source](https://gohugo.io/variables/site/#site-variables-list)
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As I'm still learning the ins and outs of Hugo, I'm not familiar enough with
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what a section *should* be beyond what the documentation states. I did attempt
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to find out how sections work by experimenting with directories in `content/`
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and files such as `index.md` / `_index.md`. Regretfully, I was unsuccessful in
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figuring out the proper structure to utilize `.Site.Sections`. I still do not
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fully understanding where the `0` and `1` "sections" even originated from. In
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any case, I decided the only course of action was to use something other than
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sections for the behavior I wanted.
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# The Fix
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Looking at other template files in the theme's layout, I stumbled on a chunk of
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code in `layouts/partials/headers.html` that defined the behavior of the
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aforementioned "navbar" problem:
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```html
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<div class="col-md-6">
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<div class="menu">
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<a href="/">Home /</a>
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{{ range $name, $taxonomy := .Site.Sections }}
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{{ if ne $name "post" }}
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<a href="/{{ $name | urlize }}">{{ $name }} / </a>
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{{ end }}
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{{ end }}
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</div>
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```
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The original uses the `.Site.Sections` variable, which I replaced with
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`.Site.Params.navlinks`. **This** seemed like intended behavior as the
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user-defined `config.toml` nav links weren't ever utilized or populated anywhere
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on the site.
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<center></center>
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I borrowed the code found in `layouts/partials/sidebar.html` (*which also never
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appears to be used*) to include the nav links and get my desired behavior:
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```html
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<div class="col-md-6">
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<div class="menu">
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{{ $url := .Site.BaseURL }}
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{{ range .Site.Params.navlinks }}
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<a href="{{ $url }}{{ .url }}">{{ .name }} /</a>
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{{ end }}
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</div>
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```
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# But Wait, There's More
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After getting more comfortable with how themes are written for Hugo, I found a
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slew of other problems with the ported **Tracks** theme:
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* Improper HTML for `/about/` and `/contact/` resulting in a sloppy looking, inconsistent site.
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* Redundant `portfolio.html`: duplicated HTML code already used in `category.html`
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* Completely unused:
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* `layouts/partials/sidebar.html`
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* `layouts/_default/taxonomy.html`
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* `layouts/_default/list.html`
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* `<div class="col-md-10 category-description">` in `layouts/partials/category.html`
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* Missing:
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* Pagination
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* Syntax Highlighting
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At this point I decided it was no longer worth my time in trying to re-work
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something I wasn't very familiar with. My main objective was simply to get a
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portfolio website with blog functionality up and running, not to custom build or
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*re*-build a theme. **Tranquilpeak** offered exactly what I wanted, though not
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necessarily *how* I wanted them. You can't always get what you want :)
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