Clean URL

Out of the box, Pelican generated URLs are unclean, i.e. they have .html appended. Elegant lets you use clean URLs with minimal configuration.

Mandatory

To use clean URLs, you server must support it.

Categories, Tags and Archives

In your Pelican configuration set following values

TAGS_URL = "tags"
CATEGORIES_URL = "categories"
ARCHIVES_URL = "archives"

With it set, your categories, tags and archives will be served from following links,

If you do not set the variables then the URLs will become

For clean URLs for articles, just set

ARTICLE_URL = "{slug}"

For pages, set

PAGE_URL = "{slug}"
PAGE_SAVE_AS = "{slug}.html"

For search page, set

SEARCH_URL = "search"

Talha Mansoor is the creator and lead developer of Elegant theme.