hugolib: Conditionally suppress .Site.Author deprecation notice

Suppress the .Site.Author deprecation notice unless the Author key
is present and not empty in the site configuration.

Closes #12297

diff --git a/hugolib/site_new.go b/hugolib/site_new.go
index 97b46e3584e75da8760c2c458981a58f16609cb5..59b97e887eb6b427b8646163bcc36b087c0e96a3 100644 (file)
--- a/hugolib/site_new.go
+++ b/hugolib/site_new.go
@@ -449,7 +449,9 @@ func (s *Site) Params() maps.Params {
 
 // Deprecated: Use taxonomies instead.
 func (s *Site) Author() map[string]any {
-       hugo.Deprecate(".Site.Author", "Use taxonomies instead.", "v0.124.0")
+       if len(s.conf.Author) != 0 {
+               hugo.Deprecate(".Site.Author", "Use taxonomies instead.", "v0.124.0")
+       }
        return s.conf.Author
 }