Built with page template

A home page or list page has content of its own, and the site has no template for that kind of page, so Statac built it with templates/page.html. The message names the template it looked for, says how many pages were built this way, and lists them.

What you’ll see

note  Built with page template: `templates/page.html` builds 1 page in place of `templates/home.html`
  Add `templates/home.html` to give it a template of its own.
  More: https://statac.dev/e/built-with-page-template/

In the terminal, the message also shows the file and line, if there is one, and marks the exact text.

Why Statac says so

A page that names no template with layout: is built with templates/home.html if it is the site’s home page, with templates/folder.html if it is any other list page, such as a folder’s index.md, and with templates/page.html otherwise. A small site often needs only templates/page.html, so Statac builds a home page or list page with content of its own with it if the site lacks the template for its kind. If the site has no templates/page.html either, Statac publishes the page as its content alone, and the built-without-template note says so.

A list page Statac makes itself, such as a tag’s page or the home page of a site with no content/index.md, has no content of its own, so it still needs its own template, and the build stops with missing-template without it.

Statac says so once for each template it looked for, so you know which template built the pages. Once you have understood the note, you can quieten it.

How to fix it

If templates/page.html suits these pages, nothing is wrong. Quieten the note with quiet: [built-with-page-template] in statac.yaml.

To build them another way, add the template the message names. To build one page with another template, give it layout:.

Example

A site has templates/page.html and content/index.md, and no templates/home.html, so the home page is built with templates/page.html. To list the site’s posts below its content, add templates/home.html:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="{{ page.language }}">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>{{ page.title }}</title>
{{ page.content }}
<ul>
{% for post in page.posts %}
  <li><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
</html>

Its name

Name	built-with-page-template
In the terminal	statac explain built-with-page-template
To stop showing it	quiet: [built-with-page-template] in statac.yaml, once you have understood it. Statac still counts it.