Getting rid of the # format in Flex

Back when I was getting this blog set up, I had a short whinge about the default way that the Flex theme created links to pages.

Specficially, creating a link to "Tuna Patties" (for example), Flex would append the link with an identical stub, such as https://www.ericlight.com/tuna-patties.html#tuna-patties

I thought this was silly, so I found a way to fix it, but never bothered submitting a Pull Request to Alexandre because I figured it was intentional.

Well, it turns out I wasn't the only one. The good Dmytro Litvinov thought the same, and he created a Pull Request to fix it, almost a whole year ago!

Now, you can avoid this behaviour by simply adding DISABLE_URL_HASH = True to your pelicanconf.py!