Sidebar Nav menus do not show in pages generated by jekyll-archives

[tillmanj]

The Minimal Mistake Sidebar Navigation does not show when included into pages built by the jekyll-archives plugin.

For an example, look at the file: archive-month.html

Tried So Far

• author_profile: true in the template frontmatter does trigger {% include sidebar.html %} as expected. See sidebar.html for the relevant code.
• The default inclusion of the sidebar nav in the default layout section of _config.yml does not trigger inclusion:

defaults:
  -
    scope:
      path: "" # an empty string here means all files in the project
    values:
      layout: "default"
      author: "Jon Tillman"
      author_url: "/about/jon/"
      toc: true
      toc_sticky: true
      sidebar:
        nav: [ recipes, culture, visit ]

• Setting the sidebar explicitly in the template frontmatter does no trigger inclusion:

sidebar:
  nav: "recipes"

Other Things I Have Checked

• my sidebar.html is identical to the minimal mistakes file
• The Archive Configuration page of the Minimal Mistakes documentation site points towards a potential for further investigation: "To apply Front Matter defaults to pages generated by the jekyll-archives plugin, you can specify a scope of an empty path and a type of either tag or category."

defaults:
  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: tag
    values:
      author_profile: true
  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: category
    values:
      comments: false

[tillmanj]

Look at https://george-gca.github.io/jekyll-archives-v2/. It might have fixed the issue.

[tillmanj]

If not, seriously consider writing a different Liquid-only archive system