What is hard about blogdown? 🤯

mara · May 8, 2018, 4:49pm

I actually think this question encapsulates a lot of what's tricky about blogdown as you've described it!

Form and function can seem intertwined, and the role of the theme itself isn't always obvious (Hugo design), etc.

Can't get rendered blogdown local website using hugo-academic theme to reflect changes R Markdown

I am creating my first attempt at a blogdown website using the hugo-academic theme. I am doing this from within RStudio and was editing the example hugo-academic website and using the 'serve site' addin. This was all going well until I tried to change the project information. I was able to change the project widget from cards to list layout and added a new project as an edited copy of one of the example projects. Then something (I have no idea what) happened so that further changes were not rendered. Editing the content of the example projects didn't result in any change in the rendered output. Change the project widget output back to cards layout - nope. Delete the example projects from th…