From 4ae3f56feb11576de4823615f076fef73b395b2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vidminas <5411598+Vidminas@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 16:31:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(authors): don't wrap author names in empty-href anchors
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Author profile pages default to `build.render: never`, so an author's term
page resolves via GetPage but has an empty RelPermalink. The author list
linked whenever the term-page object existed, emitting `<a href="">Name</a>`
— a self-link on every author (or a link to an unbuilt 404 on Hugo versions
that keep a permalink for render-suppressed pages).

Only render the anchor when RelPermalink is non-empty; otherwise show the
name as plain text.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 modules/blox/layouts/_partials/page_metadata_authors.html | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/blox/layouts/_partials/page_metadata_authors.html b/modules/blox/layouts/_partials/page_metadata_authors.html
index 8583628a0..756b07591 100644
--- a/modules/blox/layouts/_partials/page_metadata_authors.html
+++ b/modules/blox/layouts/_partials/page_metadata_authors.html
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
     {{- if gt $index 0 }}, {{ end -}}
     <span {{ if $highlight_name }}class="font-bold"{{end}}>
-      {{- if $termPage -}}
+      {{- if and $termPage $termPage.RelPermalink -}}
         <a href="{{ $termPage.RelPermalink }}">{{ $display }}</a>
       {{- else -}}
         {{ $display }}