Add an option to nikola new_post to create yyyy/mm/dd directory structures

[Kwpolska]

A lot of people want to have a yyyy/mm/dd/slug directory structure. So, let’s make it an option somewhere in nikola new_post (that can be also set as enabled by default in conf.py) to automatically create that directory tree for them.

Then there’s Jekyll-esque “replace dashes with slashes”, but that’s a story for another time.

[dubwhale]

If it could also allow custom URL structures that would be great. Currently have had to hack the post.py file in order to set the:

self.folder = <my custom folder structure>

I guess a conf format token string would work "Y/M/D" for your case, but relying purely on pre-defined tokens means if someone wants something that is possibel with tokens they cannot.

There any reason why a signal task couldn't be added 'folder_structure'?

[Kwpolska]

Uh, what do you mean? Do you know you can do something like posts/something/or/other.rst and end up with output/posts/something/or/other/? If that’s not it, please clarify.

[adarshdec23]

When you say yyyy/mm/dd/slug, does this mean output/yyyy/mm/dd/slug or output/posts/yyyy/mm/dd/slug?

[Kwpolska]

Depends on your POSTS config…