Change the URL to date layout?

Hello,

I understand what you are trying to achieve however my background in SEO wants me to advice against “dated” URLs. Having a date in your slug is generally considered a bad practice, as it gives users an idea of the age of your content before they click the link. User’s usually prefer newer content to old content.

https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-url-permalink/
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/49781/benefit-of-date-in-url-segments

Again, my background in SEO is why I had the author, publisher and genre link to archive pages. It increases the sites internal link profile but most importantly, it increases interactivity. Having a user land on one book review then explore other reviews by visiting other books in that genre or books by that author is the goal of that feather.

With all that said. I’ll look into having the reviews take on the URL structure of regular post. Gimme a couple days to have that feature.

Hehe! My experience is the opposite ??

That said, I’ve found out how to do it. I publish the review without a title, then I publish a new blog post with the review embedded.

If there is a way to publish reviews with a date, I’d love that. But I appreciate if it doesn’t fit in with what you want.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/02/why-your-blog-urls-should-contain-dates/

Oh, so you’re on the other side of that debate. No prob.

I took the “no-dates” side because I do a lot of work with food bloggers and having dates is problematic when they want to freshen up old published recipes. Sharing an updated recipe from 2012 in 2019 when the old date in the URL is a hassle at times.

I will still try to implement your suggestion though, for the challenge and the knowledge of knowing how via code.