If no featured articles exist, do not show "Related Articles" header at bottom of page

[justjwheelin]

Summary

When there are no related articles for a page, do not show the "Related Articles" header at the bottom of the page

Background

Is the improvement related to a problem? Describe the problem:

If there are no related articles, the header still appears and can be confusing as to why it is there:

What does the improvement look like to you?:

The header should not appear when there are no featured images.

Details

This can be done with Hugo conditionals to wrap this part of the template. If there are related articles, then show them; but if there are not any, remove the HTML block from the page.

Outcome

• Better user experience for someone browsing through different pages
• Better default logic for pages where we do not want to show related articles deliberately

[Yavnikaa]

Can I take this up?

[Yavnikaa]

One thing I want to confirm here is that to test out any changes I make, do I directly start a hugo server here with this repo or do I make it as a submodule in an existing hugo site to test out my changes?

[justjwheelin]

@Yavnikaa wrote…
Can I take this up?

Definitely! This is a good one to get started with, and it will introduce you to the templating syntax used in Hugo layouts.

@Yavnikaa wrote…
One thing I want to confirm here is that to test out any changes I make, do I directly start a hugo server here with this repo or do I make it as a submodule in an existing hugo site to test out my changes?

Good question. I suggest a two-part approach to developing and testing this change:

1. Clone this repo and work on your changes using the exampleSite included in the repo. Test your changes with the exampleSite theme until you get them right.
2. Once verified with the exampleSite in the theme, try cloning the unicef/inventory repo with the git submodule. Change the git submodule for the theme to your forked repo of the theme with your changes. You can use git checkout to change branches where your changes are. Then, you can run the Hugo server on the UNICEF Open Source Inventory site and verify your changes appear as expected there.

Does this make sense?

If you need some guidance on the second part, you can ask for help here or say hi in our Matrix room. If you never used Matrix before, you can see the getting started page for the Element chat client.

[justjwheelin]

FYI: @mmldco submitted a PR that addresses this issue, see #68.

[justjwheelin]

@mmldco I'm unable to assign this issue to you until you comment here once. Could you drop a comment and then I will assign you the issue so it is more clearly marked as already taken up?

[zaa6]

HI @jwflory, I'd like to keep working on this.