We just fixed this in 1.4.70.

(See #5534)

@cscheid I've updated my Quarto to 1.4.70, deleted _site directory and re-run quarto preview <deducted>/website/index.qmd --no-browser --no-watch-inputs. The issue above is still there. That's on my local computer.

In my website (Netlify + GitHub Actions), I'm using the action quarto-dev/quarto-actions/setup@v2 with version: pre-release which should technically pick the latest version. However, I still see the unparsed categories in the RSS fields, even though I had a few deployments since yesterday!

You can check in your CI log which version of Quarto has been used.

So please do confirm, 1.4.70 did not solve this.

Additionally, please consider sharing a small "working" (reproducible) example to work with, i.e., a complete Quarto document or a Git repository? Thanks.

You can share a Quarto document using the following syntax, i.e., using more backticks than you have in your document (usually four ````).

````qmd
---
title: "Reproducible Quarto Document"
format: html
---

This is a reproducible Quarto document using `format: html`.
It is written in Markdown and contains embedded R code.
When you run the code, it will produce a plot.

```{r}
plot(cars)
```

The end.
````

To be clear, this is what I see locally:

The tags in the frontmatter of the page works fine for me too. The issue is when categories: true in the listing configuration and also when generating the RSS field.
I don't have access to my laptop, but I will test it again tonight.

Can you share your full failing example?

@cscheid
quarto_test.zip compressed file contains a reproducible example. You can see the file content in below screenshot too.

Result

Blog listing page

Post page

As you can see in the listings, the categories are not parsed. That's one issue. The other issue is in the feed (index.xml) file. The content is not parsed there as well, however I couldn't reproduce this for this sample. Anyway, you can find it on my website RSS file (https://ealizadeh.com/index.xml).

I believe this issue is indeed a bug that wasn't fully resolved!

Thanks for the reproducible example. I can reproduce parts of it here.

The other issue is in the feed (index.xml) file. The content is not parsed there as well, however I couldn't reproduce this for this sample.

I'm not seeing index.xml being generated here, because, as you can see in the rendering, you need to configure site-url:

[2/2] index.qmd
WARNING: Unable to create a feed as the required `site-url` property is missing from this project.

I can see the category title shortcodes not being resolved; I'll investigate more and fix.

Thanks a lot. That's why I had the RSS feed for my actual blog but not for this sample Quarto project. Anyway, the category variables are not resolved in the RSS XML file as well.

Should this ticket be opened again?

The problem here is not on the front matter itself. The problem is on listing items derived from front matter, which currently do not go through pandoc processing.

Unfortunately, that requires larger changes in our system, so I don't have a fast solution for you.

I see this issue has the “duplicate” label, but is it still?

For reference:

• How do I use variable values in frontmatter? #12689