Comments on: Optimizing WordPress Permalinks

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:39:52 +0000

Very similar to URL sentences:

http://wpcandy.com/teaches/how-to-set-up-urls-as-sentences-in-wordpress

..which enables stuff like this:

http://angry-birds.net/tweets/the-news

It takes some time to set up, but works great for posts, pages, cats, tags, and just about everything else.

By: John Crumpton

John Crumpton — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:36:43 +0000

For WordPress as a CMS the following is the best structure:

/%category%/%postname%/

That way clicking on, about -> the company will give me http://www.website.com/about/the-company

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:03:02 +0000

Yes, check out http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Structure_Tags for a complete list.

By: DimitriAu

DimitriAu — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:41:57 +0000

Is there other custom structure keywords like %postname% ? Will %categoryname% or %tagname% work?

By: Don

Don — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:33:51 +0000

Jeff,

I am very new to WordPress. I’ve been using GoLive 5 for 10 years. I am a slow learner-very slow- but I want to use WordPress and “Pretty Permalinks.” I make the changes and get that note … If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all. … The tutorials I’ve looked at all make the assumption I already have some knowledge/understanding of what I am doing. Is there a step-by-step guide that makes no assumptions.

Thanks for the article “Optimizing WordPress Permalinks” I could follow it up to the point of HTAccess

Don

By: Quizzer

Quizzer — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:11:20 +0000

exellent information but is best use category/cars/ for categoris or the name of my site quizzer/cars ? what is the best for SEO my site? when the people type quizzer cars he come to my category por example is true this rule?

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:50:02 +0000

In general, I would go with #1, but for smaller sites, #2 is more elegant. I think Google will index either format perfectly/equally fine.

By: Nutaryuk

Nutaryuk — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:13:18 +0000

I’m still wondering which one the better :

1. http://mydomain.com/2010/07/%postname%/
or
2. http://mydomain.com/%postname%/

to make google easy to index my blog ?

Thank you very much.

By: Shaan Nicol

Shaan Nicol — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:23:18 +0000

That’s for the article

I’ve always used the year/month/date/post-name/ method but It might be time to think about a change to something a little simpler, especially on some of my clients sites.

However, the problem I found with that is that each week they post up something like ‘party-pics-are-up’ and with the simpler permalink we get a whole bunch of ‘party-pics-are-up-2 & ‘party-pics-are-up-23′ type links.

But i definitely see the value in it for some other of my clients with simpler corporate styled sites.

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:02:08 +0000

Be careful with renaming post slugs. WordPress redirects some changed URLs, but not all of them. Chris explains.