Override collection url template

[mathbruyen]

Adds the permalink metadata to collections in _config.yml. See #2407 (and #2293). The option is used as URL template for documents inside the collection, as opposed to the previously hardcoded value.

I only used currently allowed placeholders (collection, basename and output_ext) but others could be easily added. I wonder whether it would make sense to allow front-matter properties there, but since it would mostly require treatment (like spaces-to-dashes) it may not be as simple as saying it.

Shortnames like pretty cannot be used.

[parkr]

Awesome! This LGTM.

[troyswanson]

This saved my bacon just a second ago. Thanks again for this!

[davebowker]

So, my collection is for example style-guide. Currently the URL generated for this is www.site.com/style-guide -- I'd like it to be www.site.com/s

In the _config.yml I have:

collections:
  style_guide:
    output: true
    permalink: /s

Which actually generates the single HTML file, however it's unstyled. If in the _config.yml file I put:

collections:
  style_guide:
    output: true
    permalink: /s.html

This actually creates the file fully styled.

Basically, I want to be able to go to site.com/s and have everything there styled, as opposed to going to site.com/s.html

Any pointers? Is this a bug in how it works?

Thanks

SOLUTION FOUND!

I was being an idiot. It was quite simple for anyone else who would like to do similar, jsut put a forward slash after the permalink.

collections:
  style-guide:
    output: true
    permalink: /s/