Posted 1 year ago #
Hello every one.
I have a huge website (over 5000 links) which I created which has the Permalink set as:http://website.com/post-name/
But is running slow, and I wonder if changing the Permalinks to http://website.com/category/post-name/
If I were to change that on the Permalink section on the back end. Would it break my website? What risk could I be taking by doing this if any? Would it help the loading speed of the website?
Please let me know.
Posted 1 year ago #
Codex guide: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
Posted 1 year ago #
I know that place, but if I were to change the permalinks, would it break the website? That is the question.
Posted 1 year ago #
How would re-doing the permalinks help the website? In the main wordpress website says, it does not recoment using /%postname%/ it says: "Starting Permalinks with %postname% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons"
Why would they say that? I have not done any SEO on this website, so changes right now would be the way to go. But I want to make sure I am running this website in the best possible settings. What would any one recommend?
What would it be the most recommended action?
Posted 1 year ago #
SEO experts give their recommendations on what they think is best from a 'google standpoint'
the Codex is giving instructions based on technical WordPress issues
so the viewpoints may conflict
I use %category%/%postname% and it works great on my site.
I use %category%/%postname% and it works great on my site.
Eek!
See http://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/ for why this isn't a good idea.
Posted 1 year ago #
Oh yeah....I've read that...which made me consider changing it up. I set it like that a while back after reading all the 'SEO expert' stuff.
Once I had it in place, I never bothered changing it. I guess I should have qualified my response by saying I only have maybe 10 'pages' so I don't really run into an issue..... everything is posts on my site
I may have to change it one of these days again......
Posted 1 year ago #
I have close to 4,000 close to 5000 pages. So I do know if it is or will be my problem.
I would strongly suggest using a permalink structure that starts with a numeric - as per the advice in the article I listed above.
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