jekyll-url-shortener

Generates shortened URL pages based on the SHA1 hash of the post date.

URL Shortener

Generates shortened URL pages based on the SHA1 hash of the post date.

Installation

Place url-shortener.rb in your _plugins directory. In your _config.yml file make sure that safe: false is set to allow custom plugins.

Post front matter

In order for the url shortener to create links you must set shorten: true in your post front matter. The shortened ID is created from the SHA1 of your post date converted to Unix time.

---
  layout:  post
  title:   "URL Shortener for Jekyll."
  date:    1970-01-01 00:00:00           # The timestamp is converted to Unix time.
  shorten: true                          # Shorten this post.
---

Post layout

In your post layout you can access the generated hash and URL. To display these, place the following anywhere in your _layouts/post.html layout.

{%if page.short %}Short URL: <a href="{{ page.short.url }}" target="_blank">{{ page.short.hash }}</a>{% endif %}

_config.yml

In your _config.yml file you can set different settings for the URL shortener.

shortener:
  basepath: /s/        # Path for stored redirects.
  preserve: false      # Keep previously generated files.
  salt:     "LouisT"   # The optional salt, used when hasing the Unix time.

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