A title with a # will generate invalid links

[vanbroup]

---
date: 2024-01-15 14:00:00
title: A title with a # will generate invalid links
type: post
---

Some content here

config.yaml

permalinks:
  posts: /:year/:month/:day/:title/

Will generate a link like: "/2024/01/15/a-title-with-a-#-will-generate-invalid-links/", where everything after the # will be treated as a fragment.

[jmooring]

Duplicate of https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4926.

Workaround (sort of):

• posts: /:year/:month/:day/:slug/
• The slug token will return the title if no slug is provided in the front matter
• Set slug in the front matter as needed (e.g., slug: something without a hash mark)

[vanbroup]

Thanks @jmooring, sorry that I missed that, that issue is 6y old 🤔

It doesn't sound as difficult problem to resolve, manually setting the slug is not something that is easy to explain to users and this doesn't seem to be an intended behavior.

I was looking to create a quick fix but couldn't find where the urlize runs, I thought in permalink.go any suggestions where this is handled? Maybe I can create a fix including some new tests.

[jmooring]

I wouldn't spend any time on this until https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/11830 is merged and the dust settles.

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