How to customize Jekyll's url?

Question

I would like to use Jekyll to create a site. not a blog. Is there a way to avoid to have the creation date specified in the url and in the page's file name?

I think that the idea behind Jekyll is brilliant, but it seems too tied to blog generation content while it could be useful also in a more general use case.

Answer 1

In the _config file you can change the permalink to anything you like, for example mine is

permalink: /blog/:title 

As for the date you can choose your own date using the YAML front matter, again in mine i have

title: example date: you can pick what ever date you want 

Answer 2

What the docs say:

You configure permalinks in your _config.yml file like this:

permalink: /:categories/:year/:month/:day/:title.html 

If you don’t specify any permalink setting, Jekyll uses the above pattern as the default. The permalink can also be set using a built-in permalink style:

permalink: date 

Although you can specify a custom permalink pattern using template variables, Jekyll also provides the following built-in styles for convenience.

• date = /:categories/:year/:month/:day/:title.html
• pretty = /:categories/:year/:month/:day/:title/
• ordinal = /:categories/:year/:y_day/:title.html
• none = /:categories/:title.html

Source: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/permalinks/

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This is the basic setting I use:

permalink: pretty 

This sets pages to the pretty permalink style. Thus '/contact.md' will become '/contact/'.

How I use it for blog posts:

permalink: /blog/:title/ 

This makes sure the path contains the (sluggified) title.

How I use it for collections:

permalink: /desiredpath/:name/ 

This makes sure the path contains the filename.