[Feature Request] Include date in event slugs

  • Daniel Fuchs

    (@dfuchs72)


    1 week ago

    I would greatly appreciate if the links to single events would contain the (start) date the way you can set for posts in WordPresss, e.g. https://mywebsite.com/2026/07/11/summer-party.

    This would not only make the links more SEO friendly but also avoid numbers like summer-party-1, summer-party-2 for recurring events that can’t be set up as a series because they’re too irregular and far between but still should have the same title.

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  • Plugin Support Craig Schlegel

    (@craigmschlegel)

    6 days, 12 hours ago

    This request also makes sense.

    It’s a bit of a risky change though as it would require special care to handle old events with the original URL structure in a way that doesn’t break existing links.

    So I think the plan will be to add hooks to support custom URL structures in a future update. The hook can be used to implement something like this then.

    Keep an eye on this thread and the plugin change log to see how and when it will work!

    Thread Starter Daniel Fuchs

    (@dfuchs72)

    6 days, 10 hours ago

    I can see the problem with existing links, and there might be other pitfalls, like when you change the date of an event but have already published links to it … although that’s probably not a very frequent scenario.

    But maybe if you added this as an option in the ‘Customize slugs’ back-end section? That way site admins could opt in (and maybe get a little warning that existing links may break before they do so). Like WordPress does on its Settings -> Permalinks panel, but not as exhaustive. An option to add a yyyy/mm/dd slug component before the event name would be enough, in my opinion.

    I also think that this depends a lot on the user. A professional event organiser will probably manipulate the slugs for event posts themselves to include as much SEO-relevant information as possible (including the date, maybe), but for a small NGO like mine with a lot of editors who lack that technical understanding, this is not feasible.

    BTW, I appreciate that you can customize slugs. Makes it so much more localizable.

    Thank you,
    Daniel

    • This reply was modified 6 days, 10 hours ago by Daniel Fuchs.
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