For blogdown projects, this means that any figures produced by knitting any .Rmd or .Rmarkdown files will be ignored by the Hugo build. To make them appear in a deployed site, blogdown users will need to remove this item from ignoreFiles in their configuration file.
See https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-modules/discussions/2031#discussion-61686
Based on feedback from users creating personal sites and not wanting to publish dedicated page for each author.
But keep publishing author pages in the demo for now.