2025-12 solstice

A post with the title but no date in the filename, 2025-12-solstice.md, with date (as 2025-12-21T15:03Z, the 2025 December Solstice) and author but no title in frontmatter.

Frontmatter optional

This makes sure our title parsing and usage of Lume’s Extract date plugin behaves in this scenario with a title in the filename but no date.

You have to prepend the date to the filename using the yyyy-mm-dd syntax followed by a hyphen - or an underscore _ (or yyyy-mm-dd-hh-ii-ss if you also need the time). Note that [the date] is removed [by default] when generating the final url […] Dates can be defined in folders, so it's shared by all pages inside […]

– Extract date, lume.land

The date at the beginning should not be parsed and is assumed here to be part of the title since it is incomplete. With the current implementation, solstice-2025-12.md would end up keeping the hyphen and render as “Solstice-2025-12” compared to “2025-12 solstice” here. I consider this inconsistency a limitation I can live with for now. There is a draft in the example posts that tests the scenario with a date and title in the filename.