mohanarun
Member
Posted 3 years ago #
Hi I want to install the Super Cache plugin to be able to have .html files. The instructions say "fancy permalinks" should be enabled. I am using 2.7 and I scoured through the Settings > Permalinks and I could not find anything about "Enable fancy permalinks". Was this a remnant wording from older WP versions that in the new 2.7 version there is no mention about "fancy permalinks"?
In 2.7 , if I put a custom structure like /%category%/%postname%/ in the Custom Structure field of the Common Settings in Settings > Permalinks, is that what is meant by the term "fancy permalinks"?
SzurszewskiJ
Member
Posted 3 years ago #
I would also like an answer to the original question: What does the word 'fancy' mean in this context? That word does not appear in the links given above.
Fancy and pretty permalinks are synonymous
examples:
ugly permalink
http://example.com/blog/?page=106
fancy/pretty permalink
http://example.com/blog/contact-form
it's a matter of aesthetics and some say seo
mohanarun
Member
Posted 3 years ago #
Well actually before making my original posting I did check that Permalinks page in Codex. I did a page search for the term "Fancy" and it is nowhere mentioned in those pages. That is why I asked. There seems to be no consistency in the way people are referring to this concept. It is called just "permalinks" in WP 2.7 officially but I had a doubt whether fancy permalinks were referring to something else. Apparently if you use custom structure in permalinks then it is the same as fancy permalinks.
Most simply said, there are default permalinks with question marks (which are "ugly" according to the codex article) and there are not-default permalinks which indeed get different 'names', "seo friendly" is another one. Just take it that any term that is not "default" refers to another structure.
Roy