JekyllRedirectFrom

Give your Jekyll posts and pages multiple URLs.

When importing your posts and pages from, say, Tumblr, it's annoying and impractical to create new pages in the proper subdirectories so they, e.g. /post/123456789/my-slug-that-is-often-incompl, redirect to the new post URL.

Instead of dealing with maintaining those pages for redirection, let jekyll-redirect-from handle it for you.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'jekyll-redirect-from'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jekyll-redirect-from

Once it's installed into your evironment, add it to your _config.yml:

gems:
  - jekyll-redirect-from

Usage

The object of this gem is to allow an author to specify multiple URLs for a page, such that the alternative URLs redirect to the new Jekyll URL. This is

To use it, simply add the array to the YAML front-matter of your page or post:

title: My amazing post
redirect_from:
  - /post/123456789/
  - /post/123456789/my-amazing-post/

Redirects including a trailing slash will generate a corresponding subdirectory containing an index.html, while redirects without a trailing slash will generate a corresponding filename without an extension, and without a subdirectory.

For example...

redirect_from:
  - /post/123456789/my-amazing-post

...will generate the following page in the destination:

/post/123456789/my-amazing-post

While...

redirect_from:
  - /post/123456789/my-amazing-post/

...will generate the following page in the destination:

/post/123456789/my-amazing-post/index.html

These pages will contain an HTTP-REFRESH meta tag which redirect to your URL.

You can also specify just one url like this:

title: My other awesome post
redirect_from: /post/123456798/

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request