If your blog is #BuiltWith11ty and you use a classic `/yyyy/mm/dd/title` URL structure, I have a new blog post for you: #Eleventy (#11ty) year, year-month, and year-month-day indexes: https://blog.tomayac.com/2024/11/02/eleventy-11ty-year-year-month...

[tomayac@toot.cafe]

If your blog is #BuiltWith11ty and you use a classic `/yyyy/mm/dd/title` URL structure, I have a new blog post for you: #Eleventy (#11ty) year, year-month, and year-month-day indexes: https://blog.tomayac.com/2024/11/02/eleventy-11ty-year-year-month-and-year-month-day-indexes/. Who doesn't like hackable 🪓 URLs?

`/yyyy/mm/dd/title`
`/yyyy/mm/dd/`
`/yyyy/mm/`
`/yyyy/`

Thanks to @zachleat for @eleventy and the ecosystem like the image plugin around it!

[caleb@pub.calebhearth.com]

@tomayac @zachleat @eleventy @markllobrera I’ve never really understood the appeal of date-based blog post URLs in the general case. If a year or month are relevant enough I can include them in the slug. Do you have a use-case that I haven’t thought of?

[tomayac@toot.cafe]

@caleb It's simply a thing I got used to doing from my earliest blogging days. I don't really post frequently enough for it to make a lot of sense to be honest, but it sure is adequate for frequent bloggers like @Edent: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@tomayac @caleb
I wrote this about dates in URls a decade ago - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/02/why-your-blog-urls-should-contain-dates/

Basically, semantic information is good.
But, ultimately, no one is policing this. Do as you please.

[zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com]

@tomayac @eleventy Thank you Thomas!!