diff --git a/docs/settings.rst b/docs/settings.rst
index 7eb1b12a..99899058 100644
--- a/docs/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/settings.rst
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ 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.
+`PERMALINK_STRUCTURE` (``'/%Y/%m/'``)               Allows to render URLs for articles sorted by date, 
+                                                    in case you specify a format as specified in the 
+                                                    example. Also, you can specify any other word 
+                                                    that you want.
 ================================================    =====================================================
 
 
diff --git a/pelican/generators.py b/pelican/generators.py
index d91283f3..aafff068 100644
--- a/pelican/generators.py
+++ b/pelican/generators.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from collections import defaultdict
 import os
 import math
 import random
+import urlparse
 
 from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader, PrefixLoader, ChoiceLoader
 from jinja2.exceptions import TemplateNotFound
@@ -159,6 +160,17 @@ 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 self.settings.has_key('PERMALINK_STRUCTURE'):
+                permalink_structure = self.settings.get('PERMALINK_STRUCTURE')
+                permalink_structure = permalink_structure.lstrip('/')
+                try:
+                    add_to_url = article.date.strftime(permalink_structure)
+                except:
+                    pass
+
+            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..dc87728d 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',
+                   '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">