Issue with Blog authors

[RossKen]

Hello!

First of all, thank you so much for all the work put into this project! I am a maintainer of an open-source python package, Splink, and mkdocs-material has been invaluable! 🎉

Given the (pre)release of Piri Piri, I have been playing around with the Blog plugin. However, I have been having issues with adding authors to the blogs. Having copied across the hello-world.md and .authors.yml from the blog docs, I get the following error when running mkdocs serve

ERROR    -  Blog post 'blog/posts/hello-world.md' author 'squidfunk' unknown, not listed in .authors.yml

I have tried to create a minimal example, and that is working without error. So, I am struggling to work out what exactly is going wrong.

I imagine it is a simple error on my end, but I can't figure out why I am getting the above error. Any advice/guidance would be much appreciated!

To reproduce error:

mkdocs-material version: mkdocs-material-9.2.0b1
Related PR: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink/pull/1451/files

git clone [email protected]:moj-analytical-services/splink.git
cd splink
git checkout 1215-blog
source scripts/make_docs_locally.sh

where scripts/make_docs_locally.sh is a simple bash script which builds a virtual environment and runs mkdocs serve

[squidfunk]

My pleasure, glad you give the beta and blog plugin a spin!

Also, thanks for taking the time to create a minimal reproduction. If the minimal reproduction works without errors, then you could build your blog from there? Check that the file location is correct, and that the format of .authors.yml is correct.

[RossKen]

Thanks @squidfunk - turns out it was a simple error when copying across from the minimal example. Apologies for taking up your time - and thanks again for a superb tool!

[squidfunk]

No worries, glad you could solve it quickly!