Version 2.3 (July 2018)
Release Notes tell you what’s new in Academic. As always, we welcome your feedback. You can also file a bug report. Want to update to this version? Refer to the update guide in conjunction with the parameter changes mentioned in the Breaking Changes section below.
See what’s new in Academic!
Welcome to the July 2018 release of Academic. There are a number of updates in this version that we hope you will like, including:
- Option to display author names in blog posts
- Google Docs shortcode now works with all types of document (Slides, Sheets, Docs, etc.)
- New
list_tags
andlist_categories
shortcodes to list links to all tags and categories - Automatically link to your privacy policy in page footer and from the cookie consent “learn more”
Breaking changes
Here are some considerations to make when updating Academic from the previous version, v2.2.0:
- View changes to
config.toml
- scroll down to the changes for theexampleSite/config.toml
file - Hugo v0.38+ required
- Google Docs shortcode now requires
src
attribute - details below
Content pages
- posts: Add option to display author names
- To enable, add
authors = ["Me", "You"]
to the post front matter
- To enable, add
- projects: Fix list of talks
- List all projects at
/project/
URL (mainly for SEO) - Change style of tags to avoid confusion between tags and link buttons
Plugins
- Google Docs shortcode now supports all doc types (Slides, Docs, Sheets, etc.)
- Shortcode syntax changed to: {{< gdocs src=“https://…” >}}
- The new
src
attribute should point to the Google Docsembed
URL rather thanlink
URL (see Page Elements documentation)
- New
list_tags
andlist_categories
shortcodes- Use
{{< list_tags >}}
to provide a list of linked tags. - Use
{{< list_categories >}}
to provide a list of linked categories.
- Use
Other
- privacy: Automatically link to your privacy policy in page footer and from the cookie consent “learn more”
- To enable, create a privacy policy at
content/privacy.md
using the template
- To enable, create a privacy policy at
- mathjax: Improve handling of long equations (automatic linebreaks)
- Change talk icon from
comment-o
tocalendar
- Disable Google Analytics in development mode (if activated)
- Improve metadata for SEO
Thank you
Last but certainly not least, a big Thank You to all the folks that helped to make Academic even better.