Comments on: WordPress Permalinks – A Quick Tip

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:07:10 +0000

I agree, changing your permalink structure should be one of the first things you do. However, if you're just starting, be careful about using /%category%/%postname%/. Using %category% isn't sensible, unless you are very sure that your categories won’t change. I fell into this trap - as my blog matures, I need to tweak the categories, which would break my permalinks. Also, apparantly there is some bug with using just %postname%, but I don't use it so I haven't come across it. Pity, as I wanted to use it! Have you had any problems? Would be very interested to know.

By: Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:04:39 +0000

Thanks Tara, hope it does the trick.

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:06:23 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I have added the Permalinks Migration Plugin to my site

By: Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:22:24 +0000

Absolutely correct James!

By: jame kingsted - domain inform

jame kingsted - domain inform — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:05:12 +0000

good tips I think that would make more sense of an SEO stand point. better to do it in the beginning than latter.

By: Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:56:41 +0000

Good point Matt, and one I should probably have done for Blog-Op – perhaps I’ll have to test that plugin…

Come join us Goldcoaster, don’t be afraid….

By: goldcoaster

goldcoaster — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:21:16 +0000

So many good tips. I will really have to change from the free wordpress to a hosted one soon.

good tip from Matt too.

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By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:22:11 +0000

Thats a good tip…but it is even better if you put this:

/%category%/%postname%/

That way you get your category too (which is hopefully relevant and will help SEO even more)

By: Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:19:23 +0000

Excellent point Vinod, and one to treat with caution.

I wrote this thinking in terms of very new bloggers, and you’re right it could disturb existing links – although with a sitemap the new links would get indexed very quickly, existing deep-links from other sites may get disturbed.

I shall attempt to find out.

By: Vinod @ VinodLive

Vinod @ VinodLive — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:13:39 +0000

I have it currently as date+posttitle. I was thinking about changing it to just ‘title’. If I do that now, will my existing links get disturbed?. Will it affect the Google indexing?.