New Better Permalink

[imshashank]

Better Permalink Strucuture

/%category%/%postname%/%post_id%/

The Patch->

Index: options-permalink.php
===================================================================
--- options-permalink.php	(revision 20111)
+++ options-permalink.php	(working copy)
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@
 	2 => $prefix . '/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/',
 	3 => $prefix . '/' . _x( 'archives', 'sample permalink base' ) . '/%post_id%',
 	4 => $prefix . '/%postname%/',
+	5 => $prefix . '/%category%/%postname%/%post_id%/',
 );
 ?>
 <h3><?php _e('Common Settings'); ?></h3>
@@ -212,6 +213,10 @@
 		<td><code><?php echo get_option('home') . $blog_prefix . $prefix . '/' . _x( 'sample-post', 'sample permalink structure' ) . '/'; ?></code></td>
 	</tr>
 	<tr>
+		<th><label><input name="selection" type="radio" value="<?php echo esc_attr($structures[5]); ?>" class="tog" <?php checked($structures[5], $permalink_structure); ?> /> <?php _e('Category Post Name ID'); ?></label></th>
+		<td><code><?php echo get_option('home') . $blog_prefix . $prefix . '/' .$category_base . _x( 'sample-post', 'sample permalink structure' ).'/123'; ?></code></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
 		<th>
 			<label><input name="selection" id="custom_selection" type="radio" value="custom" class="tog" <?php checked( !in_array($permalink_structure, $structures) ); ?> />
 			<?php _e('Custom Structure'); ?>

#1. The URL structure is SEO-friendly and also looks clean in snippets that are displayed in search engine results pages.

#2. The structure doesn’t contain dates. I generally try to write “timeless” blog posts that should stay relevant for a longer period of time and hence skipped the date completely from the URL – the date is anyway displayed in blog articles and sometimes even in search snippets as in the above screenshot.

#3. Google News includes quite a few multi-author blogs in their index and one of their technical requirements says that all article URLs must contain a unique number. If in future, this blog grows and gets included into Google News, I won’t have to alter the permalink structure because there’s a unique number already in the URL – it’s called Post ID.

#4. Words in the URL are separated by hyphens and not underscores as suggested by Matt Cutts in one of the WordPress camps.

Suggested by Amit Agarwal of labnol.org

[imshashank]

Permalink Patch

[scribu]

Users are free to enter any permalink structure they want, including the one you mentioned. We don't need more examples on the admin page.

[imshashank]

There are already examples on the permalink page:

Day and name ​http://localhost/wordpress/2012/03/04/sample-post/
Month and name ​http://localhost/wordpress/2012/03/sample-post/
Numeric ​http://localhost/wordpress/archives/123
Post name ​http://localhost/wordpress/sample-post/

So there is no harm in entering a better permalink option... and only advance users know hoe to use this...

[ocean90]

Better is relative.

and only advance users know hoe to use this...

Everyone should be able to follow the link from the description =>
​http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Structure_Tags

[scribu]

There are already examples on the permalink page

Ok, and when do we stop? Is 5 examples too much? How about 10?

[imshashank]

Ohk.. then I guess.. this permalink option will have to wait....