Getting an author Warning When Hugo Builds the Site

The author key in site configuration is deprecated. Use params.author.name instead

 Posted on January 29, 2024  (Last modified on August 19, 2026)  • Other languages: 日本語
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The following error started appearing when building with hugo

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hugo v0.122.0-b9a03bd59d5f71a529acb3e33f995e0ef332b3aa+extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate=2024-01-26T15:54:24Z VendorInfo=brew

WARN  The author key in site configuration is deprecated. Use params.author.name instead.

Apparently the warning started being emitted from version 0.120

Fixing config.toml

  • Before
[params]
  author = "Hugo"
  • After
[params]
  author.name = "Hugo"

If there is no author inside [params], add it

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