Nikola supports special links with the syntax link://kind/name. In templates you can also use _link(kind, name). You can add query strings (?key=value) for extra arguments, or pass keyword arguments to _link in templates (support and behavior depends on path handlers themselves). Fragments (#anchor) will be appended to the transformed link.
Here are the descriptions for all the supported kinds.
- archive
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Link to archive path, name is the year.
Example:
link://archive/2013 => /archives/2013/index.html
- author
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Link to an author's page.
Example:
link://author/joe => /authors/joe.html
- author_atom
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Link to an author's Atom feed.
Example:
link://author_atom/joe => /authors/joe.atom
- author_index
-
Link to the authors index.
Example:
link://authors/ => /authors/index.html
- author_rss
-
Link to an author's RSS feed.
Example:
link://author_rss/joe => /authors/joe.xml
- category
-
A link to a category. Takes page number as optional keyword argument.
Example:
link://category/dogs => /categories/dogs.html
- category_atom
-
A link to a category's Atom feed.
Example:
link://category_atom/dogs => /categories/dogs.atom
- category_index
-
A link to the category index.
Example:
link://category_index => /categories/index.html
- category_rss
-
A link to a category's RSS feed.
Example:
link://category_rss/dogs => /categories/dogs.xml
- filename
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Link to post or page by source filename.
Example:
link://filename/manual.txt => /docs/handbook.html
- gallery
-
Link to an image gallery's path.
It will try to find a gallery with that name if it's not ambiguous or with that path. For example:
link://gallery/london => /galleries/trips/london/index.html
link://gallery/trips/london => /galleries/trips/london/index.html
- gallery_global
-
Link to the global gallery path, which contains all the images in galleries.
There is only one copy of an image on multilingual blogs, in the site root.
link://gallery_global/london => /galleries/trips/london/index.html
link://gallery_global/trips/london => /galleries/trips/london/index.html
(a gallery link could lead to eg. /en/galleries/trips/london/index.html)
- gallery_rss
-
Link to an image gallery's RSS feed.
It will try to find a gallery with that name if it's not ambiguous or with that path. For example:
link://gallery_rss/london => /galleries/trips/london/rss.xml
link://gallery_rss/trips/london => /galleries/trips/london/rss.xml
- index
-
Link to a numbered index.
Example:
link://index/3 => /index-3.html
- index_atom
-
Link to a numbered Atom index.
Example:
link://index_atom/3 => /index-3.atom
- index_rss
-
A link to the RSS feed path.
Example:
link://rss => /blog/rss.xml
- listing
-
Return a link to a listing.
It will try to use the file name if it's not ambiguous, or the file path.
Example:
link://listing/hello.py => /listings/tutorial/hello.py.html
link://listing/tutorial/hello.py => /listings/tutorial/hello.py.html
- listing_source
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Return a link to the source code for a listing.
It will try to use the file name if it's not ambiguous, or the file path.
Example:
link://listing_source/hello.py => /listings/tutorial/hello.py
link://listing_source/tutorial/hello.py => /listings/tutorial/hello.py
- post_path
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Link to the destination of an element in the POSTS/PAGES settings.
Example:
link://post_path/posts => /blog
- root
-
Link to the current language's root.
Example:
link://root_path => /
link://root_path => /translations/spanish/
- rss
-
A link to the RSS feed path.
Example:
link://rss => /blog/rss.xml
- slug
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Return a link to a post with given slug, if not ambiguous.
Example:
link://slug/yellow-camaro => /posts/cars/awful/yellow-camaro/index.html
- tag
-
A link to a tag's page. Takes page number as optional keyword argument.
Example:
link://tag/cats => /tags/cats.html
- tag_atom
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A link to a tag's Atom feed.
Example:
link://tag_atom/cats => /tags/cats.atom
- tag_index
-
A link to the tag index.
Example:
link://tag_index => /tags/index.html
- tag_rss
-
A link to a tag's RSS feed.
Example:
link://tag_rss/cats => /tags/cats.xml