I was annoyed about standard blogger post url with a date in it e.g. https://tdalon.blogspot.com/2020/07/teamsy.html . I wanted a date neutral one so I can redirect documentation with a fixed doc root url (example from internal to external). Instead of previous url https://tdalon.blogspot.com/2020/07/teamsy.html something like this: https://tdalon.blogspot.com/teamsy This is a solution I have found to fix it.
Update: the original code is provided here: https://github.com/jokenox/bloggerjs by Kenny Cruz.
You shall copy the code just below the <head> tag in your Html Template.
I have found the solution first here: https://www.niltuts.com/how-to-remove-date-from-blogger-url/
by Indranil Paul, 2020-17-03. (it looks to me Indranil just stole this code without credit)
After some experimenting, I have reverted to converting all the links to URL without dates because:
- When you share a link to twitter the preview does not work with cleaned-up links
- You can not link to a specific part of a post (using anchor id) like for example https://tdalon.blogspot.com/2020/09/teams-presentation-with-video.html#ndi : if you redirect to clean links with this code the anchor will be removed (issue 4)
[I have tried to fix the code for this but couldn't]
I use now the following configuration:
// Configuration
var config = {
postsDatePrefix: true,
accessOnly: true,
useApiV3: false,
apiKey: "mykey"
}
var config = {
postsDatePrefix: true,
accessOnly: true,
useApiV3: false,
apiKey: "mykey"
}
This allows me to use shortened URL like https://tdalon.blogspot.com/teamsy instead of https://tdalon.blogspot.com/2020/07/teamsy.html
I have updated my NWS PowerTool so that IntelliPaste will also clean-up such blogger links automatically.
Experimenting with using the API key (it shall be faster) did not work for me. See reported issue
Thanks to Kenny Cruz for sharing this!
