Add support for slug

[dragonstyle]

Discussed in #1408

^{Originally posted by sciwonder July 15, 2022}
I don't know if this is a feature currently (I searched but couldn't find any info on it), but is there a way to set up preferences for permalinks to things like blog posts in _metadata.yml in the posts folder? In my previous blog setup (using Hugo and Wowchemy), I had the following in config.yaml, for example:

permalinks:
  event: '/talk/:slug/'
  authors: '/author/:slug/'
  tags: '/tag/:slug/'
  categories: '/category/:slug/'
  publication_types: '/publication-type/:slug/'
  post: '/post/:year/:month/:day/:slug'

For blog posts, this translated to a hyperlink that started off with the year, followed by month, followed by day, and then the post's slug, which was specified within the post with slug: in the YAML header (e.g., //blog-name.netlify.app/post/2022/07/16/slug-for-blog-post/). Others might prefer a smaller hyperlink (e.g., '/post/:year/:slug') or even just the slug. I think setting this up in _metadata.yml might provide greater consistency. (Apologies if this feature already exists and I've just missed it in the documentation!)

[cscheid]

Just to clarify. I'd like this work to depend on our execution planner work (which is slated for 1.5), so that when we do add slugs, we have more confidence that we know exactly the names of the aliases, what they're referring to, and where the files might be. Slugs interact in a fragile way with things like output-file and output-dir, so we need to have a good foundation..

[danilotpnta]

I am also looking for an alternative for this. Thanks for raising the issue and thanks @cscheid for the amazing job with Quarto

[felipecrp]

This feature would be awesome for users trying to migrate a previous blog to quarto

[cscheid]

This feature is blocked by #6518, and so won't happen in the near term.