How to get filenames without dates

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Hi, I would like to remove the dates in my filenames.

It looks like I’m forced to use collections (Is there a way to do it with posts?). How can I get jekyll to render a collection other than posts on the index page?

Is it possible to automatically set the slug from the folder that the article is in? If my article is in _articles/my-article-title/index.md, I would like the slug to be my-article-title.

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date in filename is a convention you have to stick to with Jekyll.

The same way you would with posts, except you loop over your collection instead.

{% for article in site.articles %}
  <h2>{{ article.title }}</h2>
  ...
{% endfor %}

see Collections | Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites

You can try:

collections:
  articles:
    output: true
    permalink: /:collection/:path

see Permalinks | Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites

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Where do I put this code? I didn’t need to code anything for it to show my posts.

4

the default code is looping over post, you would probably swap that code with his example.

That is either in the main index file or maybe a layout or include called by it, you should poke around and try to reverse engineer it and it should make some sense.

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I figured out how to do it. I needed to create the file _layouts/home.html and copy the content from here. Then I needed to change “posts” to “articles” in line 15.