Blog with years subfolders for tidiness

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Hi,

I’m looking for a way to get more tidiness in the backend when i have a lot of blog entries.
using subfolders for each year would help a lot:

blog/2019/this-is-a-blog-entry/item.md
blog/2019/something-interesting/item.md
blog/2019/whatever8/some-old-stuff/item.md
blog/2018/more-old-stuff/item.md
blog/2017/really-old-stuff/item.md

how do i tell twig to get it’s page.collection from the subfolders 2019/, 2018, /2017, … ?

and: i dont want the year in the url, so it should look like this:
https://my-url.com/blog/something-interesting
and not like this:
https://my-url.com/blog/2019/something-interesting

of course i could also use this structure:

blog/2019-this-is-a-blog-entry/item.md
blog/2019-something-interesting/item.md
blog/2019-whatever8/some-old-stuff/item.md
blog/2018-more-old-stuff/item.md
blog/2017-really-old-stuff/item.md

…and then use a slug in each item, but for simplicity i’d like to avoid this solution

ideas anyone?
Thanks!

2

A possible solution is changing the default blog.md with items @descendants instead of @self.children.

3

Thank you SjoerdSmeets, that works.

Now i just need to get rid of the /2019/ in the urls

i tried

routes:
/blog/([0-9]{4})/(.*): /blog/$2

in site.yaml, but that doesn’t work.

do i need a rewrite_rule in .htaccess?