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Prose.io is ignoring my _prose.yml file

I am using hugo and I would like to use it with prose.io, as I read here that it is possible to do (in fact, I tested it by forking the repo and works great).

I created a _prose.yml file with the following content:

prose:
  rooturl: 'content'
  media: 'static/images'
  metadata:
    content/posts:
      - name: "title"
        field:
          element: "text"
          label: "Title"
          placeholder: "Post's title"
      - name: "date"
        field:
          element: "text"
          label: "Fecha"
          placeholder: "Write yyyy-mm-dd"
          value: CURRENT_DATETIME
      - draft:
        field:
          element: "checkbox"
          label: "Draft"
          help: "Unpublish or publish"
          value: true

Unfortunately prose.io is ignoring it: I can see all repo's content (not just files inside content folder) and I don't see the form for editing metadata.

What am I doing wrong?

Solution

  • I've learnt the hard way that this problem ocurrs when yaml is not well formatted (either indentation or missing field names). I found where the problem came from: I had to replace draft: by name: "draft"

    Furthermore, I was using a template that uses toml format for metadata instead of yaml.

    After converting everything with built-in hugo command hugo convert toYAML prose worked just fine.