Hexo: Lowercase slugs by default

[architectcodes]

Hi,

I’ve just had a go at hexo and bootstrapped a little blog at tomek.wiszniewski.cc with it. So far I’m loving every bit of it! :+1: for your great work!

One thing that struck me though is the post slug generated by default. When I run hexo new draft 'How CSS unit tests boost our productivity', I’d expect a slug like /how-css-unit-tests-boost-our-productivity. Instead, I get /How-CSS-unit-tests-boost-our-productivity. I’m not used to seeing a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters in URLs anywhere except Wikipedia (who designed their URLs a good decade ago).

I think lowercase slugs is what most of us want. Why not make it the default? What do you think?

[Xuanwo]

The url just follow the name of md file you create.
And from my opinion, it doesn't metter as the browsr will miss the difference between a W and w

[architectcodes]

The browser sends it in the request. Probably most servers ignore the case in paths or at least redirect you to the right path when you make a case-typo. But the ugly mix of lower- and uppercase letters will still be what the user sees in the address bar and in links.

[9662]

Hello there!

And from my opinion, it doesn't metter as the browsr will miss the difference between a W and w

Well, except for the scheme and host part, the rest of an HTTP(S) URI is case-sensitive (cf. RFC7230 §2.7.3).

In my case, Hexo is generating URIs as described by @tomekwi , which sadly do not play well with things like doctoc.

I have tried adding this to my _config.yml:

marked:
    modifyAnchors: 1

as per this page, but to no avail. ☹

Any ideas?

[pritambarhate]

And from my opinion, it doesn't metter as the browsr will miss the difference between a W and w

I haven't checked this specifically, but on Linux the filesystem is case sensitive. So for apache running on Linux path containing W and w will be different.

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[9662]

For anyone out there wanting to have all-lowercase slugs, this is how to do it:

In the scripts file of your theme (e.g., theme/landscape/scripts), add a JavaScript file with the following content:

/* global hexo */
'use strict';

const path = require('path')

// If config.lowercase is set, convert post slugs to all lowercase.
hexo.extend.filter.register('new_post_path', function (data, replace) {
    if (typeof data === 'string'  && hexo.config.lowercase) {
        data = path.dirname(data) + path.sep + path.basename(data).toLowerCase();
    }
    return data;
});

Somewhere in your site's _config.yml file, add:

lowercase: true

Now, when you create a new post, the slug will be all lowercase. For example:

hexo new post "This is a NEW post"

will yield something like:

INFO  Created: ~/…/source/_posts/this-is-a-new-post.md

Hope this helps.