[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12405: Query String based Permalinks

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#12405: Query String based Permalinks
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 Reporter:  mdawaffe     |       Owner:  ryan
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Permalinks   |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch    |
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Changes (by mbijon):

 * cc: mike@… (added)


Comment:

 It looks like this was posted before Google's "crawlable AJAX" proposal
 had gotten much traffic,
 http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposal-for-making-
 ajax-crawlable.html.

 That presented the idea of a URL hash-bang, like Twitter uses now:
 twitter.com/#!/username. I think these are a better idea than using
 querystrings, since Google went live with hash-bangs but still suggests
 that querystring pages limit their parameters (here,
 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en#1)

 Basically, the original suggestion:
 * /?%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

 ...might be better as:
 * /#!/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

 (The preceding slash is my own preference. In the event the querystring is
 used, I think it should stay [like "/?/$year%..."] The added slash would
 make an explicitly matchable pattern [the "?/"] & make it easy for default
 querystring permalinks to be preserved.)

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