Post title for display vs for URL?

[protobi]

Crossposting here from StackOverflow. New to Poet, the post title is not behaving as I'd expect from the example.

I expect that if a post were in the file hello.md and had the configuration {{{ title: 'hello-world', ...}}} that this would be available at the route http://hostname/post/hello and have the display render the title to the reader as <h1>hello-world</h1>. That's the way it seems to be working in the reference blog, e.g.:

• http://jsantell.com/post/browser-dance-party
• https://github.com/jsantell/jsantell.com/blob/master/_posts/browser-dance-party.md

However, in my case it seems to be using the title attribute for both the URL and the display string. In my case, the post is accessible only at http://hostname/posts/hello-world and the page title is also rendered as <h1>hello-world</h1>.

What might I be doing wrong?

[jsantell]

The url is generated from either the slug property, or the title, updated in 73712ba1d73de68c48a7ffef9120cc93e69dd372 from back in January in 1.0.0rc4 -- so that'll fix the issue (so there's no coupling with filename and url). Leaving this open to update the docs

[protobi]

Perfect, thanks so much! The aha for me:

• Can set set { "title": "this is the title I want!", "slug": "this-is-the-slug-i-want", ...}
• The default rule is to convert spaces to dashes, and remove any non-alphanumerics,

So without the slug property, the slug would be "this-is-the-title-I-want"

[jsantell]

Hmm it should also convert to lowercase, I'll make a separate bug for that -- thanks for the report!