Comments on: Best WordPress Permalink structure

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:32:47 +0000

I use permalink similar to the ones used here except for the post id. Ive thought about changing it but then, going out of google’s index would mean a lot of lost trafic. That is something I cant afford

By: Artur

Artur — Sun, 29 May 2011 20:51:43 +0000

From SEO point of view (tested by Ryan Diess) the best permalink structure is to have this post ID like: http://www.mydomain/ID/post-name

By: SS

SS — Sun, 01 May 2011 02:37:33 +0000

What number of posts does performance start to degrade without numeric URL ?

By: Ravi

Ravi — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:07:12 +0000

Welcome, Techkol. If you are porting your html sites to WordPress, then you may want to retain the same URL. Otherwise, HTML suffix not needed.

By: Techkol

Techkol — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:51:47 +0000

thanks buddy… and many of wordpress using html sufix should i go with html sufix or / ???

By: Bruno

Bruno — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:21:29 +0000

The Best Permalink Structure I have found is

For Personal Blogs :
category/postname/post id

In my experience Year / Month is not needed at the url

By: Ravi

Ravi — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:41:52 +0000

In your permalink options page, choose custom structure and give

/blog/%postname%/

By: Omid

Omid — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:47:38 +0000

I’m using WP as A CMS.
I set a Static page as home.
set Permalink Structure to: /%postname%/

my pages address are like: mysite.com/page3
my blog home is also mysite.com/blog

The problem:
I want individual blog post to be like this: mysite.com/blog/post5
right now they are like this: mysite.com/post5

how can I do so?

By: Ravi

Ravi — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:42:50 +0000

For small sites with few blog posts /%postname% is good enough. If there are no blog posts and WP is used as a CMS with pages alone, then having category or date info in permalink doesn’t matter at all. Because, date and category info are given only for posts not for pages.

By: Pali Madra

Pali Madra — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:20:20 +0000

I agree that for bigger sites using time references in the URL are an advantage for sure.

However, for smaller sites for which WordPress is used as a CMS and not as a blogging platform do you things a permalink structure of /%category%/%postname% is better or just /%postname% specially where a site does not have a blog or if the blog is there then there are limited number of posts under the blog?

Thanks in advance.