Post metadata about cryogen

[lacarmen]

I would be open to adding :date to the post metadata but can you clarify what the use case for the :slug would be?

[niamu]

:slug may ultimately be misplaced and should exist in the main config file. I haven't thought it through completely yet, to be honest.

The use case involves the situation where you want to alter the URL structure of your site. Currently (unless I'm mistaken) you can't have a post URL be something like example.com/posts/fizzbuzz or example.com/posts/1 where the post slug is just the title or an ID number or something else outside of the current fixed structure of YYYY-MM-DD-title.html.

I can imagine a solution to this involving some sort URL structure key in the main config.edn file.

[lacarmen]

Currently (unless I'm mistaken) you can't have a post URL be something like example.com/posts/fizzbuzz or example.com/posts/1 where the post slug is just the title or an ID number or something else outside of the current fixed structure of YYYY-MM-DD-title.html.

Well if you want you use a structure outside of yyyy-MM-dd-title.md for the Markdown files then the :date parameter would take care of that by allowing you to just name your file as title.md.

Your use case is a little confusing to me. It sounds like you want to use the slug as a post's uri when it ultimately gets rendered into an html file so why should it exist in the main config file? This implies that the slug parameter should be post-specific, not global. If this is the use case that you're going for then it doesn't really seem like a feature worth adding because how often is a user going to name their Markdown file foo.md but want it to render as bar.html?

[niamu]

I think that's a much clearer line of reasoning than I had. My only remaining use case that could be solved with some clever URL rewriting on the server is the case where you have a post called foo.md and it renders as foo.html but you actually want it rendered as foo/index.html. I know that this is something that Jekyll and other static site generators offer as an option, but it may not fit into the design goals of Cryogen.

Unless there are objections, I think I'll work on adding :date to the post metadata as a pull request over the next couple of days.

[lacarmen]

It's still a very niche use case so I'd say go ahead with the :date parameter but let's leave out the :slug.