File posts by date

[dpatriarche]

It seems that right now all posts are filed in the root dir of the site. That works fine when the number of posts is relatively small, but will become unwieldy as the site grows. It would be desirable to have the option to file posts by date, i.e. <root-dir>/<year>/<month>/<day>/my-post.html. Some examples of big sites that do this are Daring Fireball and Marco.org.

[dziudek]

Hi @dpatriarche,

The mentioned solution also have it's own disadvantages - for example if you change the post publication date - it should be placed in a different catalog and will cause error 404 for old links.

Additionally I am not sure if it is a good URL structure for the SEO purpose (as it makes URLs longer than it can be).

I think that we should wait for more requests for this kind of functionality at this moment :)

[dpatriarche]

That sounds reasonable.

On your point about changing the publication date, I think it would be reasonable that a new post is added under the current date, and that it stay there even if the post was modified at a later date.

[joeldebruijn]

Coming from Wordpress myself:
Another advantage is for example "sharing all posts of a certain date".
I used it frequently after a day of live-blogging a conference.
To share on social media a link to all posts of the day.

[dziudek]

I am closing this issue, because at this moment we have no plans to implement such feature - it would be very time consuming and has a very limited use cases.

[tjkirch]

I think there's a pretty big use case for it - WordPress imports. I'm unable to migrate from WordPress without being able to support the same URL structure (because I don't want all links to my posts to die) and WordPress uses dated post URLs by default. I don't want to manually set up URL forwarding for hundreds of posts, and I think many users wouldn't know how to do that anyway.

[EG-tech]

+1 to WordPress imports, I have been investigating options for migrating a number of old WP blogs and was absolutely delighted by how well the WP import in Publii worked otherwise, by far the simplest solution out there I've found. the only blocker to dropping in Publii right now is that existing links to WP's dated post URLs would break. even if this is out-of-scope for a feature request I would sorely appreciate thoughts or guidance from anyone about if or how (besides URL forwarding) this could be accomplished even as a one-off migration step, not necessarily an option for newly created sites or posts.

[angristan]

I would also be interested in this. My current website uses dated links and Publii not supporting them is a no-go for me 😢. I am also interested in any workaround.

[dziudek]

As I see there is growing interest in this feature. I will look again if it is possible to implement such feature in quite simple way in v.0.47 (planned for Q1'25).