Mention of no page

A mention in fetched/mentions/ is of an address on the site where nothing is published: no page stands there, and no page’s redirect_from names it. No page shows it.

What you’ll see

warning  Mention of no page: nothing is published at `https://example.org/post-1/`
  If the page moved, add the old address to its `redirect_from`.
  More: https://statac.dev/e/mention-of-no-page/

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

Why Statac warns

A mention is another site saying it linked to one of your pages, by the page’s address. statac refresh keeps every mention of an address on the site, whatever stands there that day, since a draft or a post waiting for its day may be published there later. When the site is built, each mention belongs to the page at its address. Where there is none, mostly because a page has moved or gone, Statac warns and leaves the mention where it is: it is never removed.

A draft, or a post waiting for its day, counts as a page here: its mentions wait with it, and nothing is said of them.

How to fix it

If the page moved, add its old address to its redirect_from. Its mentions then belong to it again, and readers following the old link are sent on. If the page has gone for good, delete the mention’s file in fetched/mentions/. Its line in fetched/record keeps it from being fetched again.

Once you have understood it, the warning can be quietened by name.

Example

In fetched/mentions/2028899.yaml:

target: "https://example.org/post-1/"

The page now at /posts/post-1/, with its old address:

---
title: Post 1
redirect_from: [/post-1/]
---

In statac.yaml, to stop it being shown:

quiet: [mention-of-no-page]

Its name

Name	mention-of-no-page
In the terminal	statac explain mention-of-no-page
To stop showing it	quiet: [mention-of-no-page] in statac.yaml, once you have understood it. Statac still counts it.