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Opened 15 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#8515 closed enhancement (wontfix)

Archive Permalink

Reported by: luckybambu's profile LuckyBambu Owned by: ryan's profile ryan
Milestone: Priority: lowest
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Permalinks Keywords:
Focuses: Cc:

Description

Currently in the permalink settings, you can set a category and a tag base. I propose that an archive base also be added. It would be useful in that you could disallow the archive base in robots.txt (much like many do with the tag and category base), but still allow robots to get the posts.

Presently, doing this is a problem, as if you disallow /2008, for example, it will also disallow the robot to access the individual posts.

Change History (4)

#1 @thee17
15 years ago

  • Milestone set to 2.9

#2 @Denis-de-Bernardy
15 years ago

  • Keywords needs-patch added
  • Milestone changed from 2.9 to Future Release

#3 @iseulde
11 years ago

  • Keywords needs-patch archive permalink removed
  • Resolution set to wontfix
  • Status changed from new to closed

I don't see much benefit in disallowing your archive pages with robots.txt. Why don't you use noindex? That way search engines will still crawl your archive and follow links to posts you do want to have indexed.
And if you really want to block your date archives, 404 them. :)

#4 @SergeyBiryukov
11 years ago

  • Milestone Future Release deleted
  • Severity changed from trivial to normal
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