This is a post for anyone coming back to update their website after some time and encountering issues. In a previous post I describe how I created the site using blogdown.
One issue I encountered when updating my website then using blogdown::serve_site() to view it, was the that the blog posts no longer appeared on the main page. After some searching the solution was to simply update Hugo using blogdown::install_hugo(). Then to adjust the Hugo versions listed in the config.toml file and theme.toml file.
However, there was an issue deploying my website – which uses Netlify to deploy. The deploy was repeatedly failing. With a “Command failed with exit code 255” error message. The solution was to update my netlify.toml file, using the guidance outlined here, and to move the netlify.toml file to my main directory.
Hope this helps anyone else who is encountering this issue.