Help choosing Permalinks

  • The more I read about permalinks the more confused I am.
    I have the permalinks setting like “/%postname%.html”, with no category base.
    Now I read that a setting like this one may lead to CSS access problems.
    I wonder if there is a commonly accepted way to set up Permalinks. And also if I should include something in the category base form below.
    As I don’t have enough time to learn WP functionality from a to z, I’m looking forward for any tips to start the right way.

    Thanks for your help.

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  • I’m new here and I may be giving you wrong information, so if I am I hope that someone will point it out to me…but I think you would just need to put “/%postname%” and leave out the .html extension. I don’t believe that you can have (and I know you don’t need) a .html extension on post pages.

    Again, I might be wrong, but I think that will work for you.

    BTW, is there a reason why you would need to use the .html extension?

    Thread Starter sren

    (@sren)

    Thanks for your reply, ajcannon.
    The “.html” trick is something I’ve been reading somewhere (I don’t really remember where).
    And the question is because I just don’t want lo leave it up to my personal taste.
    The permalink looks good indeed like “/%postname%”, either with or whitout “.html”, but I’m not sure if I’m doing what is commonly accepted by experienced users, since now I know that there could be some drawbacks.
    I hope someone tell me “DO IT LIKE THIS…AND STOP BOTHERING!” LOL.

    Thanks.

    It really does come down to a question of taste and what you are hoping to achieve from using permalinks.

    On my own site I use the format:

    /%category%/%year%.%monthnum%.%day%/%postname%/

    But on other sites i’ve worked on or assist maintaining just

    /%postname%/

    is used.

    if you just use /%postname%/ as your permalink, will your run into a problem if you have two posts with the same name? Anybody know?

    Don’t worry about leaving off the ‘.html’ – that is half the glory of permalinks right there! People would rather NOT think about all that. A site address like ‘something.com/somethingelse/’ is something you could actually tell someone at a party and they might remember.

    That said, I like the look of just doing /%postname%/, but it does mean you can’t use the same one ever again.

    Worth thinking about some, and then when you’re done, don’t mess with it – after all, they’re permalinks ??

    Thread Starter sren

    (@sren)

    Thanks!
    So I guess I can leave it as /%postname%/, or even with the “.html”, and then if I’m concerned about duplicate titles, I can use the blog search engine to find out if I’m writting a duplicate one.
    A little bit extra working, but I can manage to do it anytime I write a suspicious post name.

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