How to link your own articles on a Pelican blog?
As noted in the documentation, you can link to other source content files via:
[a link relative to content root]({filename}/this-is-the-source-file.md)
... or ...
[a link relative to current file]({filename}../this-is-the-source-file.md)
Pelican will incorporate your chosen URL scheme and automatically determine the proper way to link to the other article.
The way I do this is by specifying my own sluglines using the save_as
metadata tag. So if I have a blog post called my_post.md
, it'll look like this:
Title: My Blog Post
save_as: myblogpost.html
This is the world's most boring blog post.
That ensures I can link to it at /myblogpost.html
. Then in some other blog post, I can say:
Title: My Second Blog Post
save_as: mysecondblogpost.html
This is the world's second most boring blog post. The most boring blog post is [here]({{ SITEURL }}/myblogpost.html).
It's a more flexible and elegant solution that gives you finer-grained control. And if you're not using Pelican for a blog site, it's pretty essential.