params are not optional

[damnms]

the config.toml says, some params would be optional, but they are not.

[params.sidebar]
   # Optional about block for sidebar (can be Markdown)
   about = "A simple Hugo theme based on the [Bootstrap v4 blog example](http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/examples/blog/)."

   # How many posts to show on the sidebar (Default: 5)
   #num_recent_posts = 2

 [params.social]
   # Optional, used for attribution in Twitter cards (ideally not a person
   # for example: nytimes, flickr, NatGeo, etc).
   # See: https://dev.twitter.com/cards/types/summary-large-image
   twitter = "username"

when removing them, hugo will report a big warning:
Building sites … WARNING: calling IsSet with unsupported type "invalid" () will always return false.

would be nice if those could just be deleted because i do not use those social things, nor do i need the sidebar

[alanorth]

Hi @damnms. The parameters are optional, but you need to leave the [params.sidebar] and [params.social] blocks uncommented. The code in layouts/partial/sidebar.html currently does this:

{{ if and (.Site.Params.sidebar) (isset .Site.Params.sidebar "about") }}

It's been almost four years since I wrote that, so I'm not sure why it doesn't work when [params.sidebar] is commented out...

P.S. I don't plan on modifying the theme to work without the sidebar because it's modeled on the Bootstrap blog example and also I don't have much time to re-work the CSS.