I am converting my Jekyll blog to Pelican. The directory structure of the source content folder uses YYYY/MM/DD/slug.md to organize blog posts and stores static files in files/YYYY/filename.ext. Static pages are in pages/filename.md:
content
|-- 2023
| |-- 01
| | |-- 01
| | | |-- plans-for-the-year.md
| | | +-- sdxjs-introduction.md
| | |-- 02
| | | +-- sdxjs-systems-programming.md
| | |-- 03
| | | +-- sdxjs-async-programming.md
| | |-- 04
| | | +-- sdxjs-unit-test.md
|-- 2024
| |-- 01
| | |-- 03
| | | +-- the-other-examples.md
|-- files
| |-- 2023
| | |-- awesome-robot.png
| | |-- blackberry-pie.jpg
+-- pages
+-- about.md
I have added the following to my pelicanconf.py settings file:
OUTPUT_SOURCES = False
SLUGIFY_SOURCE = "basename"
ARTICLE_URL = "{date:%Y}/{date:%m}/{date:%d}/{slug}/"
ARTICLE_SAVE_AS = "{date:%Y}/{date:%m}/{date:%d}/{slug}/index.html"
PAGE_URL = "{slug}/"
PAGE_SAVE_AS = "{slug}/index.html"
The HTML files are generated as I want and where I want, but the source Markdown files are copied to the output directory as well, despite explicitly setting OUTPUT_SOURCES to False as suggested in the docs. I could add another line to Makefile to delete these unwanted files after the build, but how can I prevent them being copied in the first place?
The source of this problem appears to originate from two Markdown files in your content:
In both files, there is the following reference link near the bottom:
[third_bit]: {static}/
Changing the link target to / (which is what I imagine was the original intention) fixes the problem:
[third_bit]: /