Custom Permalinks – Will the year appear when I don't want it to?

  • Please can someone put my mind at rest?

    I’ve created a WordPress site that doesn’t have posts – only pages.
    In Permalink settings, I’ve selected Custom Structure: /%year%/%postname%/

    This gives me what I want. For example, the About Us page of my website shows up in the URL as https://www.mywebsite.com/about-us/

    My only concern is that, to achieve this, I have had to request the year in the custom structure to obey WordPress guidelines which say I can’t just request /%postname%/.

    Can I be sure that the year will NEVER appear in the url? Does the year information only apply to blogs not pages?

    I want to print the complete URL in some advertising. I don’t want to find that in the future the year suddenly starts appearing in the url.

    Also, as a separate point, am I in any way slowing down the site by choosing this Custom Structure rather than the Permalink default?

    Cheers

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

  • Does the year information only apply to blogs not pages?

    It applies to Posts only – not Pages.

    am I in any way slowing down the site by choosing this Custom Structure rather than the Permalink default?

    With your current permalink structure on a Page-heavy site, no.

    Thread Starter Nick Wingfield

    (@nick-wingfield)

    Thanks Esmi

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • The topic ‘Custom Permalinks – Will the year appear when I don't want it to?’ is closed to new replies.