GoHugo Shorturl

Create shorter urls to external resources for your own convenience or to your own content, to get the benefits described by Derek Sivers.

Install

If you haven’t used hugo modules before (you need the go compiler):

hugo mod init <my-module-path>

more details in hugo docs.

Then run:

hugo mod get -u -v joly.pw/gohugo-shorturl

and edit your hugo config, for instance for config.toml

[module]
  [[module.imports]]
    path = "joly.pw/gohugo-shorturl"

Use

Imagine we want to create the short url https://my.site/a and to have it redirect to https://gohugo.io/content-management/archetypes/#directory-based-archetypes:

hugo new --kind shorturl content/a.md

and then edit content/a.md:

---
title: "A"
date: 2021-03-07T13:57:13Z
draft: true
type: "shorturl"
shortto: ""
---

Change the shortto above to https://gohugo.io/content-management/archetypes/#directory-based-archetypes and draft to false

---
title: "A"
date: 2021-03-07T13:57:13Z
draft: true
type: "shorturl"
shortto: "https://gohugo.io/content-management/archetypes/#directory-based-archetypes"
---

Then deploy my.site and open https://my.site/a, you will be redirected!

Other parameters

See https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/robots/robots_meta_tag?hl=en#directives

Contribute

You may use a local version of this module in hugo like this:

[module]
replacements = "joly.pw/gohugo-shorturl -> /some/path/gohugo-shorturl"
[[module.imports]]
path = "joly.pw/gohugo-shorturl"

Please consider sending a PR with your patches, it’s always appreciated and will save you the trouble of maintaining the changes on your own!