Pelican Redirect: A Plugin for Pelican

Redirect pages using meta http-equiv tags

Installation

This plugin can be installed via:

python -m pip install pelican-redirect

After the plugin is installed via pip, add pelican_redirect to your PLUGINS list in pelicanconf.py

PLUGINS = ['pelican_redirect', ...]

Usage

Once this plugin is installed, you can add a key to the frontmatter of the file called original_url. The plugin will generate an HTML page at that location that redirects to the new location of the post/page. Example:

Title: A sample title
original_url: blog-posts/2021/07/21/a-sample-title.html

Content here

Assuming this file is now going to be served from blog-posts/a-simple-title.html, a file will be written to blog-posts/2021/07/21/a-sample-title.html that redirects to the new URL.

If original_url does not have a file extension, or the file extension is something other than .htm or .html, then original_url is assumed to be a directory and index.html is appended to the URL.

Bulk Usage

To perform a page-wide redirect, you can use the CONTENT_REDIRECT_CONFIGURATION setting, which allows you to configure an original URL using page metadata. The structure of this configuration key looks like so:

CONTENT_REDIRECT_CONFIGURATION = [
    {
        "ARTICLE_URL": "old/layout/{slug}.html",
        "PAGE_URL": "old/pages/{slug}.html",
    }
]

For any entry in that list, if there is no key for the content type (for example, one configuration may only have ARTICLE_URL, another might only have PAGE_URL), the redirect will only be generated for the keys that are specified and the others will be skipped.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and much appreciated. Every little bit helps. You can contribute by improving the documentation, adding missing features, and fixing bugs. You can also help out by reviewing and commenting on existing issues.

To start contributing to this plugin, review the Contributing to Pelican documentation, beginning with the Contributing Code section.

License

This project is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license.