Multiple permalinks per collection

[totocaster]

Hello, how do I "map" different permalinks on different collections. For examples I want blog posts to have /YYYY/MM/post-title formatting and regular pages to have /page-title permalink. posts and pages are different collections of course.

Thanks!

[misterdai]

👍 I need as well and there doesn't appear to be a way available with the plugin currently. However, I've modified my copy to support it when provided options in the following format:

  .use(permalinks({
    {posts: {pattern: '/:collection/:date/:title'}},
    {pages: {pattern: '/:collection/:title'}},
    {"*": {pattern: '/:title'}}
  })

Gist: https://gist.github.com/misterdai/84fa94cd382e66262357

The modification simply checks for a permalink rule that matches the collection name or it'll default to the wildcard * for any other file or unmatched collection. If there's no global rule or matching collection, it'll skip creating the permalink for the file.

I think collection based permalinks may be better as a separate plugin, but I'll leave it up to @ianstormtaylor to decide that :)

[patdavid]

Just came here on a somewhat related issue and noticed this. I had problems with it for a while, but the solution I went with was to use metalsmith-branch to branch my blog posts separately (they're nested under a different src/ folder. relevant section:

.use( branch('blog/posts/**')
    .use( permalinks({
        pattern: 'blog/:date/:title',
        date: 'YYYY/MM',
    }))
)

My problem now is how to handle relative files to bring them over in nested folders, but I'll open another issue for that.

[totocaster]

Hello, so it's been a while since I asked that question and digging deeper into Metalsmith just gave me indication that I didn't treat it as it supposed to be. Here is what I've done to solve my problem.

  .use(copy({
    pattern: 'pages/*',
    directory: '/'
  }))
  .use(ignore(['pages/*',".DS_Store"]))
  .use(permalinks({
    pattern: ':date/:title',
    date: 'YYYY/MM'
  }))

Thus, this plugins does it's job correctly, and it is job of other similarly simple and straightforward plugins to do the rest. Simplicity is a king in Metalsmith, I'm loving it..