I’m new here and I may be giving you wrong information, so if I am I hope that someone will point it out to me…but I think you would just need to put “/%postname%” and leave out the .html extension. I don’t believe that you can have (and I know you don’t need) a .html extension on post pages.
Again, I might be wrong, but I think that will work for you.
BTW, is there a reason why you would need to use the .html extension?
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sren
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Thanks for your reply, ajcannon.
The “.html” trick is something I’ve been reading somewhere (I don’t really remember where).
And the question is because I just don’t want lo leave it up to my personal taste.
The permalink looks good indeed like “/%postname%”, either with or whitout “.html”, but I’m not sure if I’m doing what is commonly accepted by experienced users, since now I know that there could be some drawbacks.
I hope someone tell me “DO IT LIKE THIS…AND STOP BOTHERING!” LOL.
Thanks.
It really does come down to a question of taste and what you are hoping to achieve from using permalinks.
On my own site I use the format:
/%category%/%year%.%monthnum%.%day%/%postname%/
But on other sites i’ve worked on or assist maintaining just
/%postname%/
is used.
if you just use /%postname%/ as your permalink, will your run into a problem if you have two posts with the same name? Anybody know?
Don’t worry about leaving off the ‘.html’ – that is half the glory of permalinks right there! People would rather NOT think about all that. A site address like ‘something.com/somethingelse/’ is something you could actually tell someone at a party and they might remember.
That said, I like the look of just doing /%postname%/, but it does mean you can’t use the same one ever again.
Worth thinking about some, and then when you’re done, don’t mess with it – after all, they’re permalinks 😉
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sren
(@sren)
Thanks!
So I guess I can leave it as /%postname%/, or even with the “.html”, and then if I’m concerned about duplicate titles, I can use the blog search engine to find out if I’m writting a duplicate one.
A little bit extra working, but I can manage to do it anytime I write a suspicious post name.
