A plugin for Eleventy to generate shortlinks for all items in a collection. The shortlinks can then be paired with a short domain and be used to share shorter permalinks to content in your site.

The shortlinks are generated similar to Whistle which takes the date of the item in the collection and converts it to NewBase60. The shortlink is traditionally expected to be of the format tSSSn where:

• t: prefix
• SSS: item date in NewBase60
• n: number of post in the same SSS

npm install eleventy-plugin-shortlinks

const shortlinks = require('eleventy-plugin-shortlinks')

module.exports = eleventyConfig => {
	eleventyConfig.addPlugin(shortlinks, {
		startIndex: 0,
		prefix: 'i'
	})
  ...
}

The above will generate the shortlinks for all the items in the collections. In order to use it, create another template file (e.g. links.njk):

---
pagination:
  data: collections.all
  size: 1
  alias: item
permalink: "{{ item.url | shortlink }}/"
eleventyExcludeFromCollections: true
---
{% page_redirect item.url %}

• Whistle
• NewBase60
• newbase60 on npm