strapi-plugin-permalinks

Strapi Permalinks

A plugin for Strapi CMS to enable permalinks for content types with nested relationships.

Kinda like WordPress, but not 👍🏻

Get Started

• Features
• Installation
• Configuration
• User Guide
• Roadmap

✨ Features

• Manage a chain of slugs to build a unique URL path.
• Nested relationships for content types.
• Child relations automatically sync with changes to parents.
• Create parent/child relations from different collections.

💎 Installation

yarn add strapi-plugin-permalinks@latest

🔧 Configuration

property	type (default)	description
contentTypes	array ([])	An array of objects describing which content types and fields should use permalink features.

contentTypes

An array of objects describing which content types and fields should use permalink features.

Each object in the array requires a uid, targetField, and targetRelation props. The field name "slug" is recommended for the targetField value because it represents the unique part of the URL path, but it is not required. Similarly, the relation name "parent" is recommended for the targetRelation, but is not required.

Example

Consider we have a Page content type which has a title field, a uid field named slug, and relation field named parent with a "has one" relationship to other Pages.

Let's configure the Page content type to use permalinks.

module.exports = {
  'permalinks': {
    enabled: true,
    config: {
      contentTypes: [
        {
          uid: 'api::page.page',
          targetField: 'slug',
          targetRelation: 'parent',
        },
      ],
    },
  },
};

Example with mixed relations

Let's say we have a separate Example collection and we want those entities to have a Page as it's parent? This is mostly handled automatically, except when related entities are synced, which needs one additional config option targetUID to be in place.

module.exports = {
  'permalinks': {
    enabled: true,
    config: {
      contentTypes: [
        {
          uid: 'api::example.example',
          targetField: 'slug',
          targetRelation: 'parent',
          targetUID: 'api::page.page',
        },
        {
          uid: 'api::page.page',
          targetField: 'slug',
          targetRelation: 'parent',
        },
      ],
    },
  },
};

📘 User Guide

Assign a parent relation to a page to automatically generate a URL path that includes the slugs of it's parent pages.

Syncing pages with child pages

All child pages will automatically have their slug values updated when the slug of their ancestor changes. This extends down to all descendant pages.

Deleting pages with children

Deleting a page that has children will orphan those child pages. The parent relation will be removed from the child pages but no other changes to their data will occur.

If orphaned pages exist, you will see their slug value in the content manger list view as a red label instead of plain text.

Editing the orphaned page will display a warning and an error message on the target field. From here you can assign a new parent or no parent at all. Upon saving, any children of the page will also update their target fields to reflect to new parent slugs.

Better conflict resolution regarding updated/deleted pages is on the roadmap.

🚧 Roadmap

• Completely refactor using the custom fields feature in Strapi.
• Config option to limit nesting depth.
• Better conflict resolution for orphaned pages when parent pages are updated or deleted.