The Lie of Pretty Permalinks

  • infranic

    (@infranic)


    18 years, 10 months ago

    Hope you hard-working Fellows out there won’t blame me for that too hard, but in deed, now as i’m thinking about it, i believe that this Feature is Bullshit.

    Using Pretty Permalinks inside the wp_list_cats Function does a nice Job, but the Permalinks-Pathes generated inside the Loop are looking different.

    Using the_permalink() and Pretty Permalinks at the same time in a Blog won’t be a good Deal for Search Engines – especially for the big G -, because this pretends two different URL’s for one and the same Content ;-)…

    At the Moment, I have to think about starting a dammed big hack throughout all WP-Classes- and- Functions that are affected with permalinks. I really like WP, but I also know, that creating a new blog-system would be almost the same work.

    If there is anybody out there, that has an Idea how to fix this, please let me know, in general.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    18 years, 10 months ago

    Use this plugin: http://scott.yang.id.au/2005/05/permalink-redirect/

    It issues a 302 permanent redirect for any link that is not the set permalink. It should be included as core behavior in the next version of WordPress.

    Thread Starter infranic

    (@infranic)

    18 years, 10 months ago

    I cannot see any changes after installation. Firefox now is giving me a request-timeout, explorer did not. The Links outside list_cats are looking the same as before. I think for me there’s no other way than to go through all loops and substitute the link-constructors.

    Thnx, anyhow…

    May be, that will spend some time.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    18 years, 10 months ago

    It sounds more like you’re actually have a problem with your permalinks or .htaccess rules. You don’t think all of us go through this with permalinks, do you?

    Thread Starter infranic

    (@infranic)

    18 years, 10 months ago

    In deed, macmanx, i have a huge list of problems with permalinks AND mod_rewrite. Now i’ve to work around at the same step than 4 weeks ago.

    Here an overview of all aspects:
    Using: MySQL 3.23.53, php 4.3, on apache 1.3, WP.1.5.12
    PlugIns: Disable WPAUTOP
    Permalink Structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
    Category base: /.

    Most interesting thread: reduced-rewrite-plugin

    The try of the plugins permalink-redirect or reduced-rewrite does not really improve the performance of WP. As I can see, generating requests becomes up to 150% slower. Moreover i can not understand, why the php-classes- and- functions are handling list_cats and the loop seperate in view of permalinks or just the simple links, even if i don’t use permalinks.

    Using the category base “/.” is also a fairly poor solution for stripping the presetted path with the term “category”, because the generated code shows something like http://blog.org/./foo/. The browser won’t show you that, if you’re mouseovering a link. This is somehow – from a very rudimentary point of view – correct, but looks like garbage, if one uses permalinks in order to give spiders or seo an optimized chow.

    But the point at the end will be, what WP originally has been built for: Blogging. And – no doubt – this is realized very fine.

    skippy

    (@skippy)

    18 years, 10 months ago

    You can leave the category base blank, in which case example.com/foo will correctly display the foo category.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    18 years, 10 months ago

    The category base does not have to be used, in fact, it’s rarely used. Just leave it blank as Skippy said.

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