Author name and url slug

[jeremygibbs]

I am confusing myself, so I apologize if this is a simple question. Is it possible to have an author under folder 'jeremy-gibbs' and the display name set to 'Dr. Jeremy Gibbs' - and have the url slug be 'jeremy-gibbs'? It seems like the url is always a version of the display name, i.e. 'dr.-jeremy-gibbs'

[chrede88]

Just tested this locally on a test site. The url shouldn't depend on the title (display name) defined in _index.md, but reflects the folder name, which also should be the defined authors field.

Example:
Author with display name Christian J. S. Olsen, on path ./content/authors/christian-olsen/.
_index.md:

title: 'Christian J. S. Olsen'
authors:
  - 'christian-olsen'

The url will be <site>/authors/christian-olsen/

[jeremygibbs]

Thanks for your reply! I appreciate your time. This is what I thought should happen, but am still getting the unexpected error and am at a loss as to why it is happening. I have a user on the site named Elizabeth Smith. Her _index.md file is located in ./content/authors/elizabeth-smith. It has this (some things removed here for brevity):

title: 'Dr. Elizabeth N. Smith'
authors:
- 'elizabeth-smith'
weight: 1
superuser: false
role: Research Meteorologist
organizations:
- name: NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory
  url: "https://nssl.noaa.gov"
highlight_name: false
user_groups:
- Leadership
- Members

Then on a post I have this in the associated markdown file

title: BLISS research featured by NOAA NSSL
date: 2020-12-20
type: post
tags:
- news
featured: false
authors:
- 'elizabeth-smith'

However, as you'll see on those pages, it places her profile in a folder based on her title. This happens for any user with a title that differs from their folder name. I tried emptying caches/publish folder and rebuilding to no avail. I am using the latest wowchemy version as part of the research group starter, using the latest Hugo version (v0.82.0).

Do you see anything I am getting wrong, or should I file an issue?

[chrede88]

I think I found it! Look here: https://gohugo.io/content-management/urls/#permalink-configuration-values

The Wowchemy config comes with some predefined permalinks. Here is the snip from config.yaml:

permalinks:
  authors: '/author/:slug/'
  event: '/talk/:slug/'
  tags: '/tag/:slug/'
  categories: '/category/:slug/'
  publication_types: '/publication-type/:slug/'

As you can see from the Hugo docs link, :slug will be populated with title if slug isn't defined in the front matter. The reason I didn't see this in my test, is because I disabled those permalinks a long time ago!
You should be able to define a slug in the frontmatter. Something like this:

slug: 'elizabeth-smith'

I'm not 100% sure about the slug, you might have to play around with it a bit.

[jeremygibbs]

That did the trick! I ended up removing the permalink from my config file. I appreciate the help!