{"id":16068,"date":"2025-10-09T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=16068"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:20:33","slug":"broken-frontmatter-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/broken-frontmatter-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken FrontMatter Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

For two days now FrontMatter has been slightly broken. When I want to create new posts via the interface it refuses, so I have to copy and paste the front matter info from the previous day, and add it to a new markdown document. The operation is quick and easy but it’s a shame not to have the tool working as well as it could.<\/p>\n

Every Hugo post has a title, a description, the date, preview, draft status, tags, and categories. With the FrontMatter extension all of this is generated automatically. For two or three days when I try to create a new page this isn’t generated, hence doing it manually.<\/p>\n

In practice this is an opportunity to move towards a lighter tool. I could revert to using VIM and work towards being faster with this solution, or I could experiment with using emacs.<\/p>\n

With both of these solutions I could use a Pi for blogging, rather than a laptop or desktop. I could live in terminal, rather than use Ubuntu and MacOS. I tried it before, and eventually decided to revert to having a simplified workflow.<\/p>\n

Debugging<\/h2>\n

I tried deactivating the plugin. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it. I tried updating the system and packages. I also tried turning it off and on again, without success. The last thing to try is to clean install VS code and see if that helps.<\/p>\n

This could also be the opportunity to get a metaphorical leaf blower and move previous posts towards the blog archive, but I don’t want to do that yet. I want to keep the history as it is.<\/p>\n

The Side Track<\/h2>\n

A few months agoo I was trying to export my blog from WordPress to Ghost but it always timed out so that I only had a partial import of my current blog. I was thinking of playing with vibe coding to create a tool to convert the XML file to something ghost friendly. I haven’t got around to it.<\/p>\n

Of course, because of age I know that with a google search I can find tools prepared by others that might achive what I want. A tool like MD2Ghost<\/a> might work well.<\/p>\n

And Finally<\/h2>\n

When a workflow breaks we can spend time fixing it, but we can also think laterally and learn about tools that are new to us. I enjoy having the Hugo static blog and the WordPress dynamic blog but I am curious about experimenting with ghost, to learn about a new blogging solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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