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1. Dgold
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   So I'm understanding it would be a bad idea to use http://www.mysite.com/%postname%/ for my permalinks. What's the simplest, shortest permalink that includes the post title?

   On one of my blogs, the post-titles are actually predictable (they're song titles). So it would be cool to have permalinks that you can guess, like http://www.mysite.com/song-title-you-know/

   Is there a way to do this safely, like by adding a non-numeric static preceeding word? http://www.mysite.com/lyrics/%postname%/ would be okay?

   I have read the Codex
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

   Note on using only %postname%
If you use postname as the only element in your permalinks to create a structure such as myblog.com/post-title, the rewrite rules may make it impossible to access pages such as your stylesheet (which has a similar format) or the wp-admin folder. It's best to include some numeric data (e.g. the post ID or date) in the permalink to prevent this from happening.

   but still not sure if I can use /word/%postname%/

2. ifelse
   Moderator
   Posted 6 years ago #

   "but still not sure if I can use /word/%postname%/

   That should work fine and it'll sidestep all the above mentioned issues. The static keyword in this case faciliates the same goal as the numeric identifiers.

3. Dgold
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Thank you ifelse. Very helpful. I tried it, and it's working so far.

   I would add this to the Codex if I can figure out how to post in it.

   This method seems a lot closer to the REASON for permalinks, right? To make your links readable, even predictable so it can be typed from memory? Seems better to me.

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