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By: dustin

dustin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:52:44 +0000

Alright…I tried doing all this word for word and I can’t get anything to work. Not even the other preset ones from wordpress. I made a .htaccess file, but it didn’t work. I changed permissions to let wordpress do this, but again no luck. Forgive my ignorance, but my server is MySQL is that different than apache? I read the wordpress post about permalinks so many times, but when I make them apart from the default the pages don’t show up.

Please help!
Thanks
Dustin

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By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:54:59 +0000

I use the ugly default. Longer names are bad in my opinion because some email programs won’t carry the link to pick up URL’s that wrap to another line. That’s a real concern when people email a link to a post.

By: patty

patty — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:12:26 +0000

Wow, lots of discussion here. I always preferred the post id style of permalinks, it seems short, sweet and simple, unlike some of the other styles that end up wrapping onto another line. Does it really make that much difference with the search engines anymore? I have several family history blogs that get a lot of search engine traffic and use the post ID permalink structure.

By: Schanie

Schanie — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:10:29 +0000

I have always preferred using custom permalinks with .html appended.
what is the best solution to recover the search engine links if you change permalinks by design or otherwise

By: jeremyclarke

jeremyclarke — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:42:13 +0000

Daring Fireball has a great article about designing permalinks carefully here.

I use the standard y/m/d/title structure, though I have made use of post id’s in pretty urls when building sites that will be in other languages like Bangla, Arabic and Farsi, as titles in those languages create permalinks with raw UTF codes, which is VERY human-unfriendly.

By: Shark

Shark — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:11:48 +0000

If you want to change your permalink structure there is a good plugin which 301s all your old url’s with the new ones

http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpres.....on-plugin/

By: Ted Clayton

Ted Clayton — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:36:46 +0000

@Gazza #30 - Thanks for the illuminating trac-ticket link.
For WordPress sites that are more blog-styled, the date-based permalinks seem to be a good option. For sites that are more CMS-like, and using Categories to organize access to content … it seems more a work in progress.
Two points. 1.) Inserting an extra, ‘non-functional’ directory-layer in the form of my-domain/category/category-1, appears to me to be “unsemantic”. It looks - logically - the same as the sophomoric web-tyro error of making a subdirectory for the homepage, and using my-domain/homepage/index.htm. Superfluous, and implies a semantic relation that is both spurious & nonexistent.
2.), worse, really, is that we can assign a post or other entry to multiple categories - and this is a good & attractive thing. Yet, when forming a permalink, only a single category-membership can be used. If we are going to give content-items membership in multiple categories, we create a basic logic-problem for permalinks. Presently, this appears to be resolved as a ‘race’ - whichever category-ID is encountered first becomes the permalink. That can easily upend & confuse intended hierarchical relationships.
2a.) The flexibility of category-assignment is important to me. I intend to reorganize my material from time-to-time. Much of my site-organization is impermanent, by design.
ID-numbers - the real permanent links - are admittedly ugly, but they are semantically valid.
These comments pertain more to those using WordPress in it’s CMS incarnation, and much less to typical blogs.

By: Gazza

Gazza — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:37 +0000

Be aware of using the %category% in custom permalinks: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4699

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:06:39 +0000

Perhaps you could also edit the PAGESLUG for those, or maybe the easiest way would be to go with Paul’s suggestion and manually including the rules in the .htaccess file.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:07:13 +0000

You could manually put rewrite rules in your htaccess file to exclude %category% from your static pages like your about page.