Background

This comes from an issue in the upstream fork:

jdsteinbach#21

Problem

Apparently, in certain situations the content is not coming through as String. The error that gets thrown is:

`Error` was thrown:
    Error: cheerio.load() expects a string

The crux of the problem, in the words of @netmikey

I found out that this happens when you try to use content on a content template itself. I guess you have to use this outside the content, e.g. on the layout template.

Solution

Need to find out what kind of object content is when used in a content file. Then turn it into the expected string (if possible) before passing it to cheerio.

When enabling markdown-it-anchor's permalinks (so permalinks are added next to titles), this plugin includes them in the toc (which is in most case, not desired)

It leads to results like this:

This didn't happen with eleventy-plugin-toc, the upstream version. In the upstream version, a simple hardcoded replace just removed the anchors, see here. This work for my specific use case of having # as my permalink character however I'm sure a smarter solution could be found

A simple way to do it would be to replace $el.text by $el.contents().first().text(), however this would probably break when using the markdown-it-anchor setting to put the permalink before the text