[wp-forums] Codex: Using Permalinks

mrmist listswptesters at mist.org.uk
Mon Feb 8 10:43:30 UTC 2010


In message <4B6F457A.20600 at quirm.net>, esmi at quirm dot net 
<esmi at quirm.net> writes
>Arising out of:
>
><http://wordpress.org/support/topic/361588>
>
>and the wording in:
>
><http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Structure_Tags>
>
>"%postname%
>    A sanitized version of the title of the post (post slug field on 
>Edit Post/Page panel). So “This Is A Great Post!” becomes 
>this-is-a-great-post in the URI (see Using only %postname%). Starting 
>Permalinks with %postname% is strongly not recommended for performance 
>reasons.. *** Note - this has been changed and is ok to do since ver. 2.0 "
>
>I've just read right though the wp-tester discussion on scalability and 
>I didn't see anything in there that suggested it was "OK" to start 
>permalink with %postname% in 2.x. As I understand it, starting with a 
>numeric is still the best option for performance.
>
>Have I missed something?
>


I wonder if Scribu doesn't mean 3.0 rather than 2.0.  Probably one for 
the Codex list or the talk page...
-- 
mrmist


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