Use lowercase month names in Pelican urls

Question

I'm using the static site generator Pelican. I've configured the ARTICLE_URL setting to include the year and month in the url.

For example with

ARTICLE_URL = 'posts/{date:%Y}/{date:%b}/{slug}/'

My post url will be something like

/posts/2015/Dec/my-new-post/

I would prefer the month to be lowecase, i.e.

/posts/2015/dec/my-new-post/

Is there an easy way to achieve this?

Answer 1

I was facing the same problem and solved it by making a small Pelican plugin that adds the lower case month name as a content metadata variable.

Here is the plugin:

from pelican import signals

def add_lowercase_month_to_metadata(content):
    if "date" in content.metadata:
        content.metadata["lowercase_month"] = content.metadata["date"].strftime("%B").lower()
        content.metadata["lowercase_month_short"] = content.metadata["date"].strftime("%b").lower()

def register():
    signals.content_object_init.connect(add_lowercase_month_to_metadata)

Once it's activated you can use the new lowercase month name variables (lowercase_month and lowercase_month_short) in the ARTICLE_URL and ARTICLE_SAVE_AS:

ARTICLE_URL = '/{date:%Y}/{lowercase_month_short}/{date:%d}/{slug}'
ARTICLE_SAVE_AS = '{date:%Y}/{lowercase_month_short}/{date:%d}/{slug}/index.html'