Comments on: How To Choose Your WordPress Permalink Structure

By: saidul

saidul — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:00:39 +0000

thank you very much for the awesome article, i have chosen this one for my blog /%post_id%/%postname%

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:33:37 +0000

You could move the wordpress site_url to mysite.com/blog but then you would have posts at mysite.com/blog/post5 and pages at mysite.com/blog/page5. Would this be acceptable? This is the easiest solution.

Another common approach when using WordPress as a CMS is to use ‘blog’ as a post category and then use /%category%/%postname% as the permalink. However this probably makes sense for performance reasons if you have other (non-blog) categories and your blog is small (hundreds rather than thousands of pages)

Finally a third approach would be to some URL rewriting in .htaccess or using a URL Rewriting plugin to strip /blog from any page URL

By: Omid

Omid — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:58:35 +0000

I’m using WP as A CMS.
I set a Static page as home.
set Permalink Structure to: /%postname%/

my pages address are like: mysite.com/page3
my blog home is also mysite.com/blog

The problem:
I want individual blog post to be like this: mysite.com/blog/post5
right now they are like this: mysite.com/post5

how can I do so?

By: Roey

Roey — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:54:09 +0000

Thanks for the great post. I’ve been on the fence regarding the use of the /%post_id%/%postname% verses just /%postname%. BTW, I found your post with “permalinks wordpress recommendation” in Google search.

Peace,

Roey.
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By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:30:49 +0000

You don’t need the trailing slash, but having one will prevent your server from working too hard – see this article here : http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slashforward/

By: david

david — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:52:06 +0000

Hmm, interesting article. Thanks for the input.

By: Russell

Russell — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:40:32 +0000

Hi David,

I need to dig a bit deeper regarding your trailing slash question. There may be duplicate content issues with the extra slash.

Empirically it should not be required but I need to look further into this to understand the practicalities.

I will get back to you in a the next 7 days. In the meantime check out this article which considers the trailing slash question: best wordpress permalink structure

Russell

By: david

david — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:17:30 +0000

Hey Russell,

fyi, I found this post by googling “wordpress thousands of pages” (top of second page) so your SEO must be working

Great info, well presented and timely for me. Basically you have confirmed what I had just about decided based on considerable research. I’m in the process of setting up a new blog for which I expect to have several thousand Pages and the performance issue has been a concern. Looks like I will be going with the /%post_id%/%postname% structure. BTW, do you see any value in adding a final ‘/’?

By: Russell

Russell — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:08:28 +0000

Dave, Thanks for your feedback.

I hope your hunch is right about WordPress addressing permalink performance later in 2010 once they have put the 3.0 release live on April 13th.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:14:59 +0000

New here… stumbled in from Pearson’s latest article.

I’ve said a lot about this in the past, but I like your recommendation here.

There are issues on the WordPress Trac concerning improving permalink handling. My hunch is sometime in 2010, somebody will simply put in the effort and revamp the lookups.

Now I need to figure out how to find you again.
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