From f11234d8b3050094c836a79e82647a73bb86ba88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chuck Houpt <chuck@habilis.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 08:32:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: url-less authors should not have empty links

The url field from authors.yml is optional, so no link should be
build when the url is empty or not defined.

Fix #1403
---
 _layouts/post.html | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/_layouts/post.html b/_layouts/post.html
index 4dd9efc6068..f7818bf6e0f 100644
--- a/_layouts/post.html
+++ b/_layouts/post.html
@@ -61,7 +61,11 @@ <h1 data-toc-skip>{{ page.title }}</h1>
           <em>
             {% if authors %}
               {% for author in authors %}
-                <a href="{{ site.data.authors[author].url }}">{{ site.data.authors[author].name }}</a>
+                {% if site.data.authors[author].url -%}
+                  <a href="{{ site.data.authors[author].url }}">{{ site.data.authors[author].name }}</a>
+                {%- else -%}
+                  {{ site.data.authors[author].name }}
+                {%- endif %}
                 {% unless forloop.last %}{{ '</em>, <em>' }}{% endunless %}
               {% endfor %}
             {% else %}