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1. DavePorter
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi everyone,

   I'm just working my way through learning about SEO on WordPress.

   One area that I have found some confusion is Permalinks...

   In the Codex is says "Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons."

   But I have found quite a few articles on SEO that recommend using /%category%/%postname%/
   for them !

   So I'm wondering why I am seeing this conflict of information & is the Codex warning real - I have one site set with this Permalinks settings and the performance seems fine !

   TIA, Dave

2. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The Codex warning is definitely valid, but you won't see any performance impact until you have a thousand or so posts.

   See this for more info: http://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/

3. DavePorter
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi James - the level of content being a factor did occur to me!
   Thanks for confirming it...
   regards, Dave

4. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You're welcome!

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