How to organize posts to have nice and stable links?

[idnm]

Hi there! I recently migrated by blog to quarto and now wonder how to best organize the posts directory. Currently, I have something like this
posts/
-post_where_I_discuss_A/
-post_where_I_discuss_A.qmd
-post_where_I_discuss_B/
-post_where_I_discuss_B.qmd

My problem with this structure is

1. The link for posts looks like blog/posts/post_where_I_discuss_A/post_where_I_discuss_A which is unnecessarily repetitive. What is a good practice instead?
2. So far my few posts are all in the same listing, but what if I decide later to make several categories? I'd think I will make two separate folders like posts_about_walking and posts_about_talking and distribute the existing posts between them. But this will change the links to the posts, and I'd like them to be stable if I decide to restructure the blog. How to go about that?

Thanks!

[mcanouil]

What you want to do is either change your structure which is going to be used to create the default links or use aliases, see https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-navigation.html#redirects.

Also naming your Quarto documents index.qmd will also avoid the duplicated part of the URI.
See for example https://mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2023-03-12-quarto-mathjax-packages/ and the source code https://github.com/mcanouil/mickael.canouil.fr/tree/main/posts/2023-03-12-quarto-mathjax-packages.

[idnm]

Sorry, maybe this is a misguided question, but is there a way to bind a URL to the post itself, not to its location in the project?

Say I want to specify something like

title: post about A
url: https://blog/post_about_A

So that this URL is fixed even if I move the post around in the project directory or put in a different listing later?

Also, a bit tangential, but I'd appreciate an advice. Is specifying the date in the post title considered to be a good practice?

[mcanouil]

That's what redirects/aliases are for as described in my first reply.

If you want more control, you'll have to rely on standard HTML/web processes, i.e., .htaccess.