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ThomasReggi
ThomasReggi

Reputation: 59355

Allow for a jekyll post to have no day only year and month

Sometimes I have projects that I launch and it takes a month of work and they're launched within a month they have no specific date associated with them. I would like to save a post something like 2011-05-00noday.md but jekyll will not allow it. Is there any way to do this and have the permalink reflect /2011/05/noday.html?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 515

Answers (2)

Amarjeet Singh
Amarjeet Singh

Reputation: 448

Check this setting for YAML config file:

#for all pages
permalink: pretty

#for posts
defaults:
  - scope:
     path: ""
     type: "posts"
    values:
#this looks prettier
     permalink: /blog/:title
#for your needs
     permalink: /:year/:month/:title

Upvotes: 3

J W
J W

Reputation: 2861

It sounds to me like that should be a page not a post. You could have a root level folder called /projects/, then inside that have either an individual file for each project or a sub directory for each project with an index.md file inside it.

If you don't like that idea, you can set the permalink in the YAML Front Matter of a post and that will override the setting from _config.yml:

---
layout: post
permalink: /projects/project_name/
---

or if you want the date in there and don't want all your permalinks to be set this way:

---
layout: post
permalink: /:year/:month/:title.html
(replace with actual year, month and title, e.g., /2013/06/my-title.html)
---

See the way they do projects in this Jekyll site: https://github.com/flatterline/flatterline.com/tree/master/_projects

Upvotes: 2

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