Fix Author Permalink Structure for Consistency and SEO on 11ty Site #1748
Conversation
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
Updated the author permalink structure to use a slug filter, ensuring URLs are consistently formatted and SEO-friendly. This helps prevent potential issues with special characters or spaces in author names.
|
Another optimal solution is edit vercel.config to something like {
"rewrites": [
{
"source": "/:path*",
"destination": "/:path*",
"has": [
{
"type": "header",
"key": "x-original-url",
"value": "/.*[A-Z]+.*/"
}
]
}
],
"redirects": [
{
"source": "/(.*[A-Z].*)",
"destination": "/$1",
"statusCode": 301
}
]
} |
|
@zachleat any thoughts about rewrite rules on vercel? or just unify links? |
|
I think this will probably result in a few broken links for folks if they are already linking to their existing author page—so which is worse:
I think the latter is worse, maybe we merge this and also one-off hardcode some redirects for slugs that were broken? My 2025 energy is also also kind of on-board with just merging this as-is 😅 |
|
Let’s go for it. |
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
This pull request fixes an issue with the author permalink structure on the 11ty website, caused by differences in case sensitivity between Netlify and Vercel. Netlify handles URLs in a case-tolerant manner, automatically forcing them to lowercase, which ensured that links like
worked seamlessly. However, on Vercel, URLs are case-sensitive, which led to inconsistencies and broken links when author slugs were not uniformly lowercase.
Current https://www.11ty.dev/authors/ page contains all links in lowercase format like this
To resolve this, the author permalink structure has been updated to enforce lowercase formatting using a slug filter. This change ensures all author URLs are consistently lowercase, preventing broken links and ensuring proper routing on Vercel’s deployment environment.
By standardizing URLs, this update enhances both user experience and SEO, ensuring predictable, functional, and clean author page links across the site.