pelican-alias

Pelican plugin for creating alias pages (useful for moving from a different URL scheme such as /<year>/<month>/<title>/ as used by Wordpress).

Inspired by jekyll_alias_generator.

License: MIT

Installation

Simply run:

pip install pelican-alias

Usage

• Add pelican_alias to PLUGINS in the pelican configuration file

• In each post or page that needs an alias, add an :alias: line to the metadata section. Example:

  My Aliased Post
  ##############################################
  :date: 2013-05-31 22:09
  :category: Pelican
  :slug: my-aliased-post
  :alias: /2013/05/my-aliased-post/, /2013/even-older-post-address
  
  My content goes here.
  

• Markdown example:

  Title: Another Aliased Post
  Date: 2013-06-01 21:10
  Category: Pelican
  Alias: /2013/06/another-aliased-post/
         /2013/even-older-aliased-post-address
  
  My content goes here.
  

This will create an additional HTML document at the path specified by :alias: that performs a canonical meta refresh to the new URL. If the path ends in a slash (as in the above example) then the file actually created will be index.html so that this system will work with Github pages.

Multiple aliases can be created for a single post. The delimiter for ReST format may be changed by setting ALIAS_DELIMITER in the pelican configuration file.

• Redirect to external URLs:

  Title: Pelican-Alias on PyPi
  Date: 2013-06-01 21:10
  URL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pelican-alias
  Alias: /pypi/