Avoiding Duplicate Post Names/URLs

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So let’s say I have a blog. On January 1st of 2017 I create posts/happy-new-year.md. Then in 2018 I create posts/happy-new-year.md, see that it already exists, so I create posts/happy-new-year-2.md. Then in 2019 I try the previous two before settling on posts/happy-new-year-3.md.

Software like Wordpress might organize posts like /2019/01/01/happy-new-year and /2018/01/01/happy-new-year, avoiding the issue. Does hugo have any method for organizing posts by time automatically? Or is it on me to somehow do this manually (e.g., hugo new posts/2019/happy-new-year.md)

While I’m not sure how often this sort of thing is going to be a problem, I’d like to get ahead of it now so that URLs don’t need to change in the future.

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Yep, you can do this through configuring permalinks in the config.toml file

I’m pretty sure you can also organise your posts in subdirectories, e.g. content/posts/2019/01 etc.

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for config-file set

[permalinks]
    post    = "/:section/:year/:month/:day/:title"

under content/<section> the structure does not matter