permalink

If you have pretty permalinks chosen (based on the post title), then the permalink will be chosen by using the post title, minus any special characters like apostrophes and ampersands. You can always start out by using the title you want the permalink to be, then later change the title.

yeah i have pretty ones chosen.

but i’m using templates for my post and change the date and a few numbers every time.

So i’d rather it not chose it until i’ve confirmed the post.

So i’d rather it not chose it until i’ve confirmed the post

What do you mean “confirm”?

The post editor saves the autodrafts of the post with the title you give it. I suppose you could always disable autosave of drafts, but that might come back to haunt you.

Am I missing something here? Can’t you just edit the permalink to anything you want? You can even activate the slug field from screen options and add your desired permalink there.

What do you mean “confirm”?

i mean actually posted it.

I think that maybe to get what you want –that WP does not set the permalink until you are ready to publish the post (it will have to be set before you publish so that it has a way to get called from the database)– that you are going to have to turn off autosaving drafts. Even then, I think WP will start a default a permalink based on the title, and you will have to override it. But as the other poster has pointed out, it’s not hard or time-consuming to edit the defaulted permalink.

Another option might be to look at setting a custom permalink structure, so that WP automatically creates the permalink you are wanting. That will depend on whether the things you are wanting to include are “automate-able”. If they are more idosyncratic–that is, they vary on non-predictable factors (for example, the category is added to the slug, but only for some categories)– then I think you are stuck overriding the default manually. Sorry.