KnockItOut
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Posted 1 year ago #
Would there be any drawback/issue to using a permalink structure of %post_id%-%postname%? I see people often talking about using %post_id%/%postname%, but not-so-much the former. I think it would be beneficial in a couple ways.. 1) The link starts with a numerical value (which is encouraged here). 2) It points to the root level, and not inside a "folder" at the root level (like the latter arrangement -- example.com/444/my-blog-post). So what's the problem with example.com/444-my-blog-post?
I've tested it out and it SEEMS to work, but I'm sorta cautious since I can't find a lot of support for this structure. My thought was that it might get confused if you had numbers in the title of a post. But I tested this out too and it worked. I had something like "Hello World" >> example.com/1-hello-world. And I created a post with the title "1 Hello World". It came out as example.com/2-1-hello-world.
Is there a problem that could arise I'm just not thinking about?
KnockItOut
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Classy moderators over here. Thanks a ton.
Would there be any drawback/issue to using a permalink structure of %post_id%-%postname%?
It really depends on the server configuration. WordPress is designed to use backslashes, as in /%post_id%/%postname%/, but that doesn't mean that %post_id%-%postname% won't work. Since it's working well for you, there's probably no reason to worry about it.
Classy moderators over here. Thanks a ton.
Everyone here, even the moderators, are volunteers. We "work" here on our free time doing our best to help literally thousands of users each day. I apologize that our best was not up to your standards.
However, bumping a post 3 times within 60 minutes of the initial posting was also against the Forum Rules.
To elaborate on that, most of the volunteers here start with the topics that have no replies, so bumping your topic is actually counter-productive as it is removed from the "no replies" listing.
