Custom Path Name for Collections

[btihen]

I want to replace my existing website with Bridgetown - however, I want to keep the url paths the same so all the search indexes are still valid.

It seems the autogenerated routing uses update/yyyy/mm/dd/title - I didn't see anything in the routes file so I am assuming this is a default somewhere.

Can someone point me to the documentation (or code) to change the collection paths (and ideally the 'blessed' way to override that in code if there is no config setting for that).

[btihen]

Its quite a hack, but this does what I was trying for:

Lets make a news file:

mkdir src/news
touch src/news/breaking.md
---
layout: page
title: Breaking
date: 2022-03-07
---

**Breaking News**
EOF

If go to: localhost:4000/news/breaking we should see our page.

Now lets make an index page that collects all the 'news' files.

touch src/news/index.md
cat <<EOF>>src/news/index.md
---
layout: page
title: News
date: 2022-03-07
---

**Some articles**

<% full_path, current_page = File.split(page.path) %>
<% path_list = Dir[full_path + "/*.md"].reject { |p| p.include?(current_page) } %>
<% file_list = path_list.map { |p| File.split(p).last.split('.').first } %>
<% title_list = path_list.map { |f| File.read(f).split("\n").detect {|t| t.include?('title: ') }.split.last } %>
<% link_list = title_list.zip(file_list) %>

<ul>
  <% link_list.each do |title, file| %>
    <li><a href="<%= file %>"><%= title %>- <%= file %></a></li>
  <% end %>
</ul>
EOF

now if you go to http://localhost:4000/news

you should see your new page with the breaking news listed too.

I am sure there is a better solution - probably with Bridgetown-Routes - but I haven't been able to get it working yet

[jaredcwhite]

You should be able to use the standard collection loops and adjust your permalinks in the config accordingly. Check out https://www.bridgetownrb.com/docs/collections & https://www.bridgetownrb.com/docs/content/permalinks

[btihen]

Cool - I totally overlooked the permalinks & collections failed because I mised the creation of the template. Cool my hack is useless. Thanks!