Theme is not used

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Hi,

the theme I am trying to use, is not applied.

I started following the instructions on Overview | Zola and wanted to add a theme afterwards.

I have it copied to the themes folder and its folder name is set with the theme= variable in the top level of my project’s config.toml. I also tried removing the templates folder and I also tried copying the templates folder from the theme … Everything I did either threw an error or it just did nothing. Am I missing a step?

config.toml:

base_url = "https://foobar.tld"
title = "Blog title"
description = "Blog description"

compile_sass = true
build_search_index = false

theme = "zolastrap"

My folder structure:

├── config.toml
├── content
│   └── _index.md
├── templates
│   ├── base.html
│   ├── blog.html
│   ├── blog-page.html
│   └── index.html
├── themes
│   ├── zolastrap

Thanks for any hint.

2

Hmm, I tested it and the theme loaded fine. Maybe the templates folder is overriding it?

Try removing it and see if zolastrap works.

3

Thanks for taking the time to test it.

For me, removing the templates folder does not help. My content/_index.mdseems to reference something in the templates folder. … Can you please tell me, what is in your content folder and your _index.html?

My_index.md is:

+++
title = "first"
sort_by = "date"
template = "index.html"
page_template = "page.html"
+++

My error message on zola buildis:

Error: Failed to build the site
Error: Failed to render section '/path/to/content/_index.md'
Error: Reason: Failed to render 'index.html'
Error: Reason: Variable `paginator.pages` not found in context while rendering 'index.html'

Do I have to set pages somewhere? The theme’s github page does not mention anything related.

Thanks.

4

Hi,

right after posting I changed my search keywords and found this: Fails to render pages, `paginator.pages` not found in context · Issue #2 · getzola/after-dark · GitHub

Apparently, the _index.md needs a variable paginate_by = 5for some themes.

Now it builds fine. :slight_smile: