Permalink settings

[discobot]

From my point of experience permalinks proper setting should be set to:

/%category%/%postname%/

and that should be at least at common settings or better as default. I can say - all of actual common settings in permalink settings are unusful dinosaurs.

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Read-only archive: Issues · ClassicPress/ClassicPress · GitHub

Author: Dominiq

Vote count: 4

Status: open

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Comments

Agreed…for whatever it’s worth.

~ posted by Voltaire

@Voltaire: if this is a suggestion you’d like to see implemented, please vote for the petition by clicking the number and the up arrow above.

I’m on the fence about this. It could certainly be added as an option, but so could many other possibilities.

I would probably never pick this particular permalink structure myself. Many simple sites do not even make use of categories, and no categories exist by default, so this shouldn’t be the default setting.

~ posted by James Nylen

For the reasons @James Nylen has given, I can’t see how this could be the default. It’s also not what I typically use, so I’m not really sure what this adds.

~ posted by Tim Kaye

While we do often use this permalink set up, I do not see why this should be the default. It is easy to reconfigure if necessary and the current default serves fine in most cases.

~ posted by Klein

I could get behind some enhancements to the built-in permalink options (like adding a base for a specific post-type), but not changing the default.

~ posted by Wells

Guys, that setting is only for blog structure (as WordPress started as blog platform).

If You use blog at platform got to deal with its permalink setting.

Typically modern solution is what I proposed :

/%category%/%postname%/

and it works well with plenty categories and show permalinks like

www.mysite.com/my-specific-blog-category/my-specific-category-post

Default options for now are not fit to make permalinks “pretty” for blog with multicategories. That little code fixes it.

I would test if it works also well with subcategories but i think it does.

As I said. If You not make blog, don’t need to care about this setting at all.

Typically You just make structure adding parent to every page.

~ posted by Dominiq

[joyously]

Using the category in the permalink is questionable in my mind, because you can assign multiple categories to a post and it will use the first one only. You can also change the category of the post, and then your link is no longer “perma”, as the redirect logic is for changed slugs and nothing else. (You can see this especially well at the WP support forums, where topics are often moved to the correct category, but the permalink isn’t affected.)
And then this is only for posts, not pages and not CPTs.
If you wanted to make a feed for the big news aggregators, you would need an ascending number (like post ID) on the end, so why isn’t that the default?

[anon98749105]

NO for me. If someone wants to use this permalink structure, it’s easy to configure it.

[timkaye]

It’s odd how some people think that, because they do something a certain way, it should be the default for everyone. None of the business sites I manage use this configuration. I was against the idea when it was first proposed, and I’m still against it now.

[james]

Setting this to close in a week. In the absence of agreement upon a new default setting, I think the default is still fine and it’s easy to change the permalink structure if needed.