I have successfully used the blogdown R package for a few months now for the blog of my team at work, until the moment I was not the only author anymore.
At that point I realized that the author's name specified in the blog post was not really taken into account. Instead, it was read by default from the config.toml.
The relevant part of my config.toml looks like this:
[Author]
name = "Darth Vader"
profile = "https://linkedin.com/in/darthvader/"
And the top part of the specific blog post is structured like follows:
---
title: A new hope
author: Luke Skywalker
date: '2017-10-10'
---
However, it is Darth Vader that invariably appears as the post author, regardless of what the author: field contains. If I leave the config.toml's field empty, then no name at all appears once the .Rmd is rendered.
Am I doing something wrong?
Copying from the discussion under the main post:
I contacted the theme maintainer and the bug is now gone! https://github.com/jbub/ghostwriter/commit/d40349f7692bd3a0b2e99798dba6d6b87c10d12c