[wp-docs] Custom permalink structures: best practice

[Mike Schinkel]

Starting a URL with an arbitrary number is an optimization for an existing implementation; i.e for the benefit for the programmer. OTOH, it's a negative for the user because it makes URLs longer than they need to be, makes them appear to the user to be more obscure (because with arbitrary number they are) and it makes it harder for the user to guess the more obvious URLs.    

-Mike

On Jul 13, 2010, at 4:25 PM, "John O'Nolan" <john.wp at onolan.org> wrote:

> Purely out of interest (cause this is news to me)
> 
> How does a permalink structure including numbers solve the problem outlined in that old thread, and why isn't this solution more widely published? If it works then it sounds like something that pretty much everyone should do!
> 
> John
> 
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> On 13 Jul 2010, at 20:59, Andrew Nacin wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:56 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
>> Shouldn't the screenshot underline the page's recommendations?
>> 
>> That's a good idea. It should probably also reflect a version of WordPress greater than ~ 2.3.
>> 
>> :-)
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