diff --git a/docs/settings.rst b/docs/settings.rst
index 7eb1b12a..2bdc891f 100644
--- a/docs/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/settings.rst
@@ -61,6 +61,34 @@ Setting name (default value)                        what does it do?
                                                     on the output path "static". By default,
                                                     pelican will copy the 'images' folder to the
                                                     output folder.
+`ARTICLE_PERMALINK_STRUCTURE` (``''``)              Empty by default. Allows to render URLs for 
+                                                    articles sorted by date, in case you specify a 
+                                                    format as specified in the example.
+                                                    It follows the python datetime directives:
+                                                     * %Y: Year with century as a decimal number.
+                                                     * %m: Month as a decimal number [01,12].
+                                                     * %d: Day of the month as a decimal number [01,31].
+
+                                                     Note: if you specify a datetime directive, it will
+                                                     be substituted using the date metadata field into 
+                                                     the rest file. if the date is not specified, pelican
+                                                     will rely on the mtime of your file.
+
+                                                     Check the python datetime documentation 
+                                                     at http://bit.ly/cNcJUC for more information.
+                                                    
+                                                    Also, you can use any metadata in the 
+                                                    restructured text files:
+                                                     * category: '%(category)s'
+                                                     * author: '%(author)s'
+                                                     * tags: '%(tags)s'
+                                                     * date: '%(date)s'
+
+                                                    Example usage:
+                                                     * '/%Y/%m/' it will be something like 
+                                                       '/2011/07/sample-post.html'.
+                                                     * '/%Y/%(category)s/' it will be something like
+                                                       '/2011/life/sample-post.html'.
 ================================================    =====================================================
 
 
diff --git a/pelican/generators.py b/pelican/generators.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index d91283f3..8d6de666
--- a/pelican/generators.py
+++ b/pelican/generators.py
@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@ from collections import defaultdict
 import os
 import math
 import random
+import urlparse
 
 from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader, PrefixLoader, ChoiceLoader
 from jinja2.exceptions import TemplateNotFound
 
 from pelican.utils import copy, get_relative_path, process_translations, open
+from pelican.utils import slugify
 from pelican.contents import Article, Page, is_valid_content
 from pelican.readers import read_file
 from pelican.log import *
@@ -159,6 +161,20 @@ class ArticlesGenerator(Generator):
         # in writer, articles pass first
         article_template = self.get_template('article')
         for article in chain(self.translations, self.articles):
+            add_to_url = u''
+            if 'ARTICLE_PERMALINK_STRUCTURE' in self.settings:
+                article_permalink_structure = self.settings['ARTICLE_PERMALINK_STRUCTURE']
+                article_permalink_structure = article_permalink_structure.lstrip('/')
+
+                # try to substitute any python datetime directive
+                add_to_url = article.date.strftime(article_permalink_structure)
+                # try to substitute any article metadata in rest file
+                add_to_url = add_to_url % article.__dict__
+                add_to_url = [slugify(i) for i in add_to_url.split('/')]
+                add_to_url = os.path.join(*add_to_url)
+
+            article.url = urlparse.urljoin(add_to_url, article.url)
+            article.save_as = urlparse.urljoin(add_to_url, article.save_as)
             write(article.save_as,
                           article_template, self.context, article=article,
                           category=article.category)
diff --git a/pelican/settings.py b/pelican/settings.py
index 125d0bb0..db2984e9 100644
--- a/pelican/settings.py
+++ b/pelican/settings.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ _DEFAULT_CONFIG = {'PATH': None,
                    'DEFAULT_METADATA': (),
                    'FILES_TO_COPY': (),
                    'DEFAULT_STATUS': 'published',
+                   'ARTICLE_PERMALINK_STRUCTURE': ''
                    }
 
 def read_settings(filename):
diff --git a/pelican/themes/notmyidea/templates/article.html b/pelican/themes/notmyidea/templates/article.html
index 14fffe4d..6615b63a 100644
--- a/pelican/themes/notmyidea/templates/article.html
+++ b/pelican/themes/notmyidea/templates/article.html
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 {% block content %}        
 <section id="content" class="body">    
 <article>
-        <header> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="{{ article.url }}"
+        <header> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="{{ pagename }}"
         rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to {{ article.title }}">{{ article.title
         }}</a></h1> {% include 'twitter.html' %} </header>
         <div class="entry-content">