Writing ‘Pretty’ Permalinks

  • Resolved newbee

    (@newbee)


    18 years, 11 months ago

    I have read the codex entries about writing permalinks and have a couple of questions.

    a) The codex says “make sure to end a virtual site structure with either %post_id% or %postname%”

    I want to end with %post_id% so can I end my permalink with /postid=%post_id/ in order to make it look more readable or does it need to be plain /%post_id%/
    (i.e. is it ok to put ordinary text between the ‘/’ and the ‘%’)

    b) Should I terminate my permalink with / or not?
    (i.e. should it end %post_id%/ or just %post_id%)

    c)The Codex says “/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ is always a good start”. However, based on the advice about writing ‘pretty permalinks’ and SEO it would seem to make more sense to have %postname% first and then the year/month/date. Is it ok to do it this way or might it cause any problems?

    c) Does anyone think there are any real advantages to adding ‘category’ at the begining of a permalink in order to optimise ranking in the search engines, as has been sugested? I don’t know enough about how search engines work to know the answer and would like some feedback.

    PS I’m on Wp 1.5.2

    Thanks

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  • a)I don’t think you can use the = in the permalink.
    b) yes, terminate with %/
    c) I believe there are plugins for that purpose, but I haven’t found any problems being found in google (PR5, online less than a year) using year,cat,postname

    Thread Starter newbee

    (@newbee)

    Thanks miklb but that still leaves some of my questions unanswered:

    Can I structure my permalinks post name, year, month, date or should I structure them year, month, date, post name.

    You mentioned plug ins. Which ones please?

    Thanks.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You won’t notice any difference SEO-wise between /%year%/%monthnum%/&day%/%postname%/ and /%postname%/%year%/%monthnum%/&day%/. Personally, I recommend /%year%/%monthnum%/&day%/%postname%/, because it looks better aesthetically.

    The only permalink plugin that I know of is Permalink Redirector. This plugin “replies a 301 permanent redirect, if requested URI is different from entrya€?s (or archivea€?s) permalink. It is used to ensure that there is only one URL associated with each blog entry.”

    For more SEO tips, see:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_Wordpress

    I thought there was a plugin floating around that modified the order of permalinks, maybe it was the title and postname that was swapped.

    Thread Starter newbee

    (@newbee)

    Thanks for that, but there’s still one question outstanding:

    Can I place ordinary text before the % symbol i.e.
    /postnumberis%postid%/

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    No, you can only use the tags as described.

    Thread Starter newbee

    (@newbee)

    Thanks again. Problem resolved with your help.

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