Will %post_id%-%postname% be problematic??

  • Would there be any drawback/issue to using a permalink structure of %post_id%–%postname%? I see people often talking about using %post_id%/%postname%, but not-so-much the former. I think it would be beneficial in a couple ways.. 1) The link starts with a numerical value (which is encouraged here). 2) It points to the root level, and not inside a “folder” at the root level (like the latter arrangement — example.com/444/my-blog-post). So what’s the problem with example.com/444-my-blog-post?

    I’ve tested it out and it SEEMS to work, but I’m sorta cautious since I can’t find a lot of support for this structure. My thought was that it might get confused if you had numbers in the title of a post. But I tested this out too and it worked. I had something like “Hello World” >> example.com/1-hello-world. And I created a post with the title “1 Hello World”. It came out as example.com/2-1-hello-world.

    Is there a problem that could arise I’m just not thinking about?

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  • Thread Starter knockitout

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    Classy moderators over here. Thanks a ton.

    Moderator James Huff

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    Would there be any drawback/issue to using a permalink structure of %post_id%-%postname%?

    It really depends on the server configuration. WordPress is designed to use backslashes, as in /%post_id%/%postname%/, but that doesn’t mean that %post_id%-%postname% won’t work. Since it’s working well for you, there’s probably no reason to worry about it.

    Classy moderators over here. Thanks a ton.

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    Moderator James Huff

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