Decap CMS Widget that allows you to create permanent IDs for your content.
Widgets are inputs for the Decap CMS editor interface. It's a React component that receives user input and outputs a serialized value.
This widget allows you to create custom permalinks that can be used to generate pathnames for Decap CMS based websites. The widget mimics the behaviour of WordPress permalink input field automatically outputting correct slugs.
- Install the widget
npm install decap-cms-widget-id
yarn add decap-cms-widget-id
- Import the Permalink widget to your Netlify CMS setup file
import { Widget as IdWidget } from 'decap-cms-widget-id';
- Register the widget for use
CMS.registerWidget(IdWidget);
Inside the YML collecitons file you should uuid as new widget
collections:
- name: "example"
label: "Example"
folder: "/path/to/your/folder"
create: true
slug: "{{slug}}"
fields:
- label: "ID",
name: "id",
widget: "uuid",
prefix: 'post', // This allows to add a prefix to the ID
You can also use it as a JS object using Netlify CMS Manual Initialization
Example:
{
label: 'ID',
name: 'id',
widget: 'uuid'
prefix: 'post', // This allows to add a prefix to the ID
},
This widget fields:
prefix-> is used when you want to prefix IDs within the collection