Regression: not able to have .Site.Home as sidebar root by default anymore

[zecakeh]

Environment

• Version of Docsy you are using: 0.13.0
• How are you using Docsy? As a:
  • Hugo module
  • NPM module
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• Version of Hugo you are using (output of hugo version): hugo v0.153.3-179034abbb2f31793c553a311177e6d742118030+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2025-12-26T15:33:04Z VendorInfo=gohugoio
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Problem

We have been using the docs type on our website, and the sidebar was defaulting to .Site.Home as root on all sections and subpages. After upgrading to 0.13.0 the sidebar root defaults to .FirstSection and it is not possible to get it to default to .Site.Home anymore without modifying the layout files.

I believe that the culprits are those lines:

• $sidebarRoot defaults to .FirstSection in sidebar.html:

  docsy/layouts/_partials/sidebar.html

  Line 13 in bbf68d4

  {{ $sidebarRoot := .FirstSection -}}

• The old default for $navRoot in sidebar-tree.html for the docs type which was set to .Site.Home is overriden by $sidebarRoot, which is always set because of the default in sidebar.html:

  docsy/layouts/_partials/sidebar-tree.html

  Lines 49 to 52 in bbf68d4

  	{{ $navRoot := cond (and (ne .Params.toc_root true) (eq .Site.Home.Type "docs")) .Site.Home .FirstSection -}}
  	{{ if $sidebarRoot -}}
  	{{ $navRoot = $sidebarRoot -}}
  	{{ end -}}

[chalin]

Thanks for the issue. Can you share a link to your site?

[zecakeh]

Sure this is for the Matrix specification, available at: https://spec.matrix.org/.

The source code of the site is at: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec.