Have custom folder name without affecting the URLs

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Hi,

I’d like to have my folder names independent of the route / URL. The reason for this is say, you have a menu structure displayed as:

  1. Introduction
  2. Getting started
    …
  3. Others

and then your directory inside the content folder is ordered by name as:

  • getting-started
  • introduction
  • others

This becomes hard when you have a lot of folders. Hence I would like to prefix my folders with numbers the same as in the menu so it becomes easy to find and order them. So something like this:

01.introduction
02.getting-started
03.others

I tried this, but all my urls get prefixed with the numbers like this: http://localhost:1313/02.getting-started

How can I have my folders named independent of my URLs?

Thanks in advance

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You want to look for url in the frontmatter. Create your folders, then add in each file’s frontmatter something like

url: /introduction/chapter-title

This will override the automatic link title. Depending on your needs slug might help. If you have for instance a _index.md file in the folder 01.introduction you could add slug: introduction there and subsequent files in that structure will use introduction in the url. But it might be too specific for you.

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Thanks for your reply. The url frontmatter worked for me. Appreciate your help.

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I think there is also slug: your-url-here as well, which maybe useful to you.

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