Added support for multiple categories, WARNING: this will break the

current themes, just did it because I needed it.

pelican/contents.py

@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ def relative_dir(self):
 
 
 class Article(Page):
-    mandatory_properties = ('title', 'date', 'category')
+    mandatory_properties = ('title', 'date', 'categories')
     default_template = 'article'
 
 
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ def __unicode__(self):
         return self.name
 
     def _from_settings(self, key, get_page_name=False):
-        """Returns URL information as defined in settings. 
+        """Returns URL information as defined in settings.
         When get_page_name=True returns URL without anything after {slug}
         e.g. if in settings: CATEGORY_URL="cat/{slug}.html" this returns "cat/{slug}"
         Useful for pagination."""

pelican/generators.py

@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ def generate_articles(self, write):
         """Generate the articles."""
         for article in chain(self.translations, self.articles):
             write(article.save_as, self.get_template(article.template),
-                self.context, article=article, category=article.category)
+                self.context, article=article, categories=article.categories)
 
     def generate_direct_templates(self, write):
         """Generate direct templates pages"""
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ def generate_context(self):
                 continue
 
             # if no category is set, use the name of the path as a category
-            if 'category' not in metadata:
+            if 'categories' not in metadata:
 
                 if (self.settings['USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY']
                     and os.path.dirname(f) != article_path):
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ def generate_context(self):
                     category = self.settings['DEFAULT_CATEGORY']
 
                 if category != '':
-                    metadata['category'] = Category(category, self.settings)
+                    metadata['categories'] = [Category(category, self.settings)]
 
             if 'date' not in metadata and self.settings.get('DEFAULT_DATE'):
                 if self.settings['DEFAULT_DATE'] == 'fs':
@@ -374,7 +374,8 @@ def generate_context(self):
 
         for article in self.articles:
             # only main articles are listed in categories, not translations
-            self.categories[article.category].append(article)
+            for category in article.categories:
+                self.categories[category].append(article)
             # ignore blank authors as well as undefined
             if hasattr(article,'author') and article.author.name != '':
                 self.authors[article.author].append(article)

pelican/readers.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     'tags': lambda x, y: [Tag(tag, y) for tag in unicode(x).split(',')],
     'date': lambda x, y: get_date(x),
     'status': lambda x, y: unicode.strip(x),
-    'category': Category,
+    'categories': lambda x, y: [Category(cat, y) for cat in unicode(x).split(',')],
     'author': Author,
 }
 

pelican/tools/pelican_import.py

@@ -203,9 +203,10 @@ def build_markdown_header(title, date, author, categories, tags, slug):
     if date:
         header += 'Date: %s\n' % date
     if author:
-        header += 'Author: %s\n' % author
+        #header += 'Author: %s\n' % author
+        header += 'Author: fitoria\n'
     if categories:
-        header += 'Category: %s\n' % ', '.join(categories)
+        header += 'Categories: %s\n' % ','.join(categories)
     if tags:
         header += 'Tags: %s\n' % ', '.join(tags)
     if slug:
@@ -226,12 +227,19 @@ def fields2pelican(fields, out_markup, output_path, dircat=False, strip_raw=Fals
 
         filename = os.path.basename(filename)
 
+        year, month = date.split('-')[:2]
+
         # option to put files in directories with categories names
         if dircat and (len(categories) > 0):
             catname = slugify(categories[0])
             out_filename = os.path.join(output_path, catname, filename+ext)
             if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(output_path, catname)):
                 os.mkdir(os.path.join(output_path, catname))
+        elif year and month:
+            month_dir = os.path.join(output_path, year, month)
+            if not os.path.exists(month_dir):
+                os.makedirs(month_dir)
+            out_filename = os.path.join(month_dir, filename+ext)
         else:
             out_filename = os.path.join(output_path, filename+ext)