Want to use hyphens in taxonomies

  • Resolved dalepickles

    (@dalepickles)


    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    SEMRush is telling me….

    The Issue

    When it comes to URL structure, using underscores as word separators is not recommended because search engines may not interpret them correctly and may consider them to be a part of a word. Using hyphens instead of underscores makes it easier for search engines to understand what your page is about.
    Although using underscores doesn’t have a huge impact on webpage visibility, it decreases your page’s chances of appearing in search results, as opposed to when hyphens are used.
    For more information, please see?this Google article

    How to fix it

    Replace underscores with hyphens. However, if your page ranks well, we do not recommend that you do this.

    This plug in doesn’t let me use hyphens in the taxonomies. Can the plugin be updated to allow hyphens?

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  • Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    Hi @dalepickles. Thanks for using TaxoPress. This is a limitation in the WordPress core. Customizations are normally done via post type slugs and for those to work properly, they need to have underscores, and not dashes. We may consider adding hyphens in a future versions, but it may cause incompatibilities with other WordPress features.

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