Wordpress Permalinks: a quick study

Posted on October 4, 2007 
Filed Under Techniques

First of all…what are permalinks?

If you click on the title of a post, you will notice that the post opens up in it’s own page. If you look in the address bar of your browser that is the permalink. That is what someone would use in their page to link to that particular post.

Wordpress has a good explanation here:

I found this site off of the Wordpress page about permalinks:

Now my understanding is that with Wordpress 2.0+ you do NOT have to manually create a .htaccess file that Wordpress will handle all that for you! So all you have to do now is pick a permalink format and STICK WITH IT!!! Sticking with a format is important once your site has been submitted to Google because Google will “index” your page (more on that later). Changing the permalink structure theoretically can cause problems for people who have linked to your page / post.

I have a software blog at (http://globalmapperforum.com) You will notice that I am using the default permalinks there. That was not intentional but I am really glad because it worked out well that way. That site also runs a vbulletin forum and I was very glad when creating the custom vbulletin template that I had very short URLs to link to from the forum back to the blog. I have not noticed any affect in my page rank on this site because of the default permalinks, in fact, it has done quite well on the ranking for it’s keywords.

The key is this…pick one structure you like and keep it.

I have chosen to use:

/%post_id%/%postname%/

for this site. We’ll see how it work.

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