Building blogdown site twice leads to incorrect formatting

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Rebuilding blogdown site is not rendering correctly for some themes.

Having created a new directory using the R Project Wizard in RStudio, I create a new site using a custom theme such as "AlexFinn/simple-a" or "zwbetz-gh/vanilla-bootstrap-hugo-theme" with blogdown::new_site(theme = "AlexFinn/simple-a"). Once created, I add the following to to config.TOML; ignoreFiles = ["\\.Rmd$", "\\.Rmarkdown$", "_files$", "_cache$"]

At this point, all is working as expected and I get a properly formatted example site.

When I press the 'Build Website' button in the Build panel in RStudio again OR I upload to Netlify, for these two themes, my website is rendered with all styling and images removed; black text - bolded and sized - and with a plain white background. With "gcushen/hugo-academic" the colours appear but the images are missing. Nothing appears different with the "road2stat/hugo-tanka".

I would understand this behaviour with the vanilla theme but "simple-a" and "hugo-academic" are mentioned in the blogdown book in chapter 1.6

I am using Hugo 0.53 and blogdown_0.10.1

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1 Answers

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Build Website is not for rendering the blogdown website, What it does is to render multiple Rmarkdown documents into a website.

You should use Addins -> Serve Site or call the command blogdown::serve_site() instead.

For more information on the difference between rmarkdown::render_site() and blogdown, you can read