Build fails on Hugo 0.156+ — site.Author removed from site object

[Storagezilla]

Hi Jim,
Just a heads up. I saw Manton suggest using Hugo 0.158 due to it's improved speed but that throws a build error with mnml.

Hugo version: 0.158 (via Micro.blog)
mnml version: 2.8.4
Previous working Hugo version: 0.91

Description
Hugo v0.124.0 deprecated .Site.Author and v0.156.0 removed it entirely. Micro.blog recently added Hugo 0.158, which causes mnml to throw the following error:

ERROR error building site: render: failed to render pages: render of
"layouts/_default/baseof.html:7:11": execute of template failed:
template: post/single.html:7:11: executing "post/single.html" at
<partial "footer.html" .>: error calling partial:
"layouts/partials/footer.html:6:106": execute of template failed:
template: _partials/footer.html:6:106: executing
"_partials/footer.html" at <site>: can't evaluate field Author in
type interface {}

The error points to layouts/partials/footer.html line 6, which references site.Author (or .Site.Author).

Suggested fix
Replace references to site.Author / .Site.Author with .Site.Params.author and move any top-level [author] config entries under [params]. This is the same fix applied by other Hugo themes (e.g. Congo #1149, Docsy #1899).
Hugo's own deprecation notice recommends using .Site.Params.Author or implementing an author taxonomy.

Thank you for your wonderful theme!

Regards,
Mark.

[jimmitchell]

Thanks, Mark. This should be fixed in the latest 2.8.5 release. Give it a try.