CoolURI2
This plugin makes Blosxom recognize date-based, extensionless URIs (aka Cool URIs) for both stories and categories. If you are using the static_file plugin, Cool URIs will be recognized for static files also. The main motivation for this URI format is that links never have to break…ever. Goodbye 404 errors! You can read Tim Berners-Lee’s essay for more details on why Cool URIs are cool.
The idea for this plugin was based on the cooluri plugin written by Rob Hague, which makes Blosxom recognize extensionless URIs. Along with Blosxom’s built-in ability to recognize date-based URIs for stories, cooluri did almost what I wanted. It didn’t handle date-based URIs for categories however.
I wrote cooluri2 to do both. Now categories, stories, and static-files all can be referenced by cool URIs, like this:
http://example.com/2003/12/03/category
http://example.com/2003/12/14/category/story
Days and months can be left off if you prefer a shorter URI:
http://example.com/2003/12/category
http://example.com/2003/12/category/story
http://example.com/2003/category
http://example.com/2003/category/story
The date part of the URI is the creation date for that document. Note that stories may have different creation dates then the categories they are in, so you may end up with URIs like this:
http://example.com/2003/10/23/category
http://example.com/2003/12/14/category/story
If you use the cooluri2 plugin, you might want to read about how I converted my site to use Cool URIs.
Documentation is available here.