Hexo i18n Post Generator

This plugin currently tested on Hexo 4.3.1. It may not work on other versions. This plugin will add the language to the path of the post. For example, if you have a post named hello-world, and you have two languages, en(default) and zh-CN, then the path of the post will be like 2022/01/01/hello-world/ and zh-CN/2022/01/01/hello-world/. It also support group by post, which means the path will be like 2022/01/01/hello-world/ and 2022/01/01/hello-world/zh-CN/.

Installation

npm install hexo-generator-i18n-post --save

Usage

Add configuration in your _config.yml:

# i18n post generator config
i18n_post_generator:
  # `group_by` available value is `post`, `lang`, default is `post`
  group_by: post
  # identifier_field is used to identify the unique post, default is `slug`, however, a custom field is recommended
  identifier_field: slug

• group_by is used to group the posts, if you set it to post, then the posts will be grouped by post, if you set it to lang, then the posts will be grouped by lang. e.g. if group_by is post, the path will be like: :year/:month/:day/:title/:lang/, otherwise group_by is lang, the path will be like: :lang/:year/:month/:day/:title/. However, if you set permalink pattern in your hexo root config to :year/:month/:day/:title/, then there would be potential path issue. For example, if you have a post named hello-world, and you have two languages, en and zh-CN, then the path of the post will be like 2022/01/01/hello-world/ and en/2022/01/01/hello-world/, but if the date of these two posts are different, then the path will be like 2022/01/01/hello-world/ and en/2022/01/02/hello-world/, which will not work if you use the default language switcher by Hexo. So, if you want to use this plugin, you'd better set permalink pattern to :title or use a custom switcher.
• identifier_field is used to identify the unique post, default is slug, however, a custom field is recommended since slug is not unique in some cases, e.g. source/_data/2019-01-01-hello-world.md and source/_data/en/2019-01-01-hello-world.md will have different slug but we want them to be the same post. If you still want to use slug, it will help you to trim the en/ by split the slug with /, but it doesnot always work for all general cases.

TODO

• [ ] Add hexo cli plugin to generate i18n post

Misc

To set the header(menu-item) link for each language, you can change the template for url in your theme, for example, in NexT theme, you can change the template in themes/next/layout/_partials/header/menu-item.njk:

{# ... #}
{% if page.lang == languages[0] %}
    {%- set itemURL = node.path %}
{% else %}
    {%- set itemURL = page.lang + '/' + node.path %}
{% endif %}
{{- next_url(itemURL, menuIcon + menuText + menuBadge, {rel: 'section'}) -}}
{# ... #}

where languages[0] is the default language, and page.lang is the language of the current page.