8 replies

1. d3v1an7 1 hr later

   @zachleat ahhh spagett!

2. Jason Garber 2 hr later

   @zachleat slaps roof i can fit so many blog posts in this baby

3. Jason Shellen 6 days later

   @zachleat Hah! Eleventy is good, congratulations on v3!

   I don't know if this is the place to ask but I'm having issues migrating a bunch of old md files like YYYY-MM-DD-title-of-post.md to be at a path like domain.com/title-of-post is there a way to do this in Eleventy? Seems like I would need to strip dates out of the actual filename to make this work. Am I missing an easy setting somewhere? Thanks in advance.

   1. Bob Monsour 7 days later

      @shellen @zachleat One thought would be to use js front matter for those files in a directory data file and use a regex to set the permalink based on the filename, but removing the up-front date part. You might consider asking this in the #11ty Discord. There's a lot of great help there. https://www.11ty.dev/blog/discord/

   2. Zach Leatherman 13 days later

      @shellen sorry for the late reply but this behavior is enabled by default in Eleventy!

      > If a date key is omitted from the file, we then look for a YYYY-MM-DD format anywhere in the file path (even folders).

      https://www.11ty.dev/docs/dates/

      1. Jason Shellen 14 days later

         @zachleat Thanks for the pointer and trying to wrap my head around this so bear with me.

         What I want: example.com/this-is-a-post-title

         What I'm getting: example.com/2018-10-22-this-is-a-post-title

         I have dates in frontmatter and in the filename. Can I say "don't use dates in path at all"?

         1. Zach Leatherman 14 days later

            @shellen ah, my apologies—I got my wires crossed a little bit. The date in your file path can inform the `page.date` for the page but won’t (by default) influence the permalink output location.

            You can use `page.filePathStem` to do this, though (and the file path date will be stripped out).

            Consider this config, modified from https://www.11ty.dev/docs/permalinks/#remove-trailing-slashes

            eleventyConfig.addGlobalData("permalink", () => {
            return (data) => `${data.page.filePathStem}/`;
            })

            Thus, 2001-01-01-test.md -> test/index.html

            1. Jason Shellen 16 days later

               @zachleat Excellent! That's exactly what I was looking for -- thank you!