Just for fun, I did a permashortlinks engine for Octopress \o/
Add jekyll-redirect-from to your gemfile. Add it to your
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gems:
- jekyll-redirect-from
Modify a bit your Rakefile:
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diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 9fb3783..8c01394 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ task :new_post, :title do | t, args|
if File.exist?( filename)
abort( "rake aborted!" ) if ask( "#{filename} already exists. Do you want to overwrite?" , [ 'y' , 'n' ]) == 'n'
end
+ redirect = Dir.glob( "public/s/*" ) .sort_by{ | s| s[ /\d +/] .to_i } .last
+ redirect_number = /public\/ s\/ ( \d +) \. htm/.match( redirect)[ 1] .to_i + 1
+ redirect.gsub!( /\d +/, redirect_number.to_s) .gsub!( /public/, "" )
puts "Creating new post: #{filename}"
open( filename, 'w' ) do | post|
post.puts "---"
@@ -115,6 +118,7 @@ task :new_post, :title do | t, args|
post.puts "date: #{Time.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z')}"
post.puts "comments: true"
post.puts "categories: "
+ post.puts "redirect_from: #{redirect}"
post.puts "---"
end
end
Add a redirect_from field to your older posts
And that’s it. Now, when you create a post, and it will have automatically a shortlink.
In my case, this article has the following permashortlink: http://www.pierre-o.fr/s/9.htm