changing permalinks
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Hi, just wondering, has anyone suggested the ability to change permalink structure over here at wordpress.com, and what has staff said about this? I don’t have a problem with the way permalink settings are right now, but if I had the ability to I’d probably change them because having the date as part of the URL just seems a bit repetative.
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Hi Bob. The question was asked earlier today so I’ll let you read :-)
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-set-up-permalinks?replies=4 -
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Having search engine friendly URLs is a very good thing and will mean your site will rank higher than if you did not have them.
Another issue by way of example. Let’s say you set things so that there was no date in the URL and you published a post called “Monthly Update” and were going to do that each month. The first time the URL would be blogname.wordpress.com/monthly-update/
The second month you do that again. How is wordpress to know which one is which since they would both end up with the same URL? I’ll tell you, they would append a number to the end of your URL so that the second one would be blogname.wordpress.com/monthly-update-2/ .
Now since the above is also the structure of the page URLs, if you then decided to have a page called Monthly update, we introduce another wrinkle. The page URL would also be blogname.wordpress.com/monthly-update/ , but that was the URL of your first “monthly update” post, so wordpress again has to add a number to the end of the page URL to protect you from yourself. .
Since wordpress does not always cache all the different ways this can happen, I’ve had to straighten out issues like this on self-hosted blogs before when people, simply because they didn’t know any better, or didn’t think it through, ended up with a mess and stuff ending up going where it wasn’t supposed to go.
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