I want only one new ugly permalink, the others are pretty

  • What’s the best way to do the following?

    I’m planning to use a form on my site that either requires the use of an ugly permalink (the rest of my site uses pretty ones), or a separate page outside of WordPress (maybe on a sub-domain?).

    I read about the dire consequences from an SEO perspective of messing with permalinks on a live site and I’m not fluent in PHP (and that’s putting in mildly), hence seeking an opinion. Thanks.

    Here is the note from my host:
    A note for WordPress sites
    If your site uses WordPress, you must link to the default “Ugly” permalink type (of the form “https://example.com/?p=N”), even if you use any of the “Pretty” permalinks instead. This is because the mailing list scripts automatically add parameters to the URLs which don’t work with “Pretty” permalinks.

    If you edit a post or a page, you can find the post ID number in the URL line after the post= text. For example, you might see something like:

    https://example.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3141?action=”edit”, so the post ID is “3141”.
    In this example, you would use something like:

    https://example.com/?p=3141
    as the URL of the page even if it also has a “Pretty” permalink such as:

    https://example.com/mailing_list_unsubscribed
    You may also create these pages outside WordPress to avoid the problems with permalink

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by bensontel2.
    • This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic

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  • What the host is saying is that the scripts that they provide don’t take WordPress into account, so they suggest you change WordPress instead of changing the script.
    But that’s not the only solution.
    There are many plugins for WordPress that provide forms. If you don’t have to use the one your host has, I would find a replacement.
    Mailing list scripts are not a good idea for a web host anyway, since they are configured for serving pages, not sending emails (and dealing with bounces and blacklists and opt-ins).

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