Comments on: Remove Dates From Permalink

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:16:40 +0000

This regex will work for sites that had been using the
/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ structure. It is also tolerant of WordPress installs in subdirectories of the docroot – like http://www.foo.com/pub/myblog/1999/11/11/my-awesome-post/
RedirectMatch 301 (/[^/]+)?/\d{4}/(\d{2}/){2}(.*) $1/$3

By: Larry James

Larry James — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:43:05 +0000

I has been my understanding that while /%category%/%postname% is perhaps the most search engine friendly url, it is not the best option for performance. I use/%postID%/%postname%/ because I have learned that it is best to start your permalink structure with a number, such as the year or post ID.

By: Jim Kitzmiller

Jim Kitzmiller — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:01:18 +0000

John,

The regular expression version worked for me. Thank you.

Jim

By: John

John — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:58:19 +0000

I’m new to redirects, and wasn’t able to get it to work with the example above until I reliezed that the “dddd” and “dd” need to be regular expressions.

Here’s what I used and it worked

RedirectMatch 301 /[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/([^/]+)/ /$1/

By: Levon

Levon — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:01:21 +0000

If I want to use:
/%postID%/%postname%/

What would the .htaccess code be?

By: MLR

MLR — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:43:24 +0000

Currently I use:
/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

I think I want to change it to:
/%postID%/%postname%/

What would the htaccess look like for that? And would that be just as good for SEO as your improvement?

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:27:59 +0000

I tend to use more than one category and so I end up with a lot of posts in the categories with that start with letter earlier in the alphabet.

I have never had any toruble with just using the post slug.

By: Brad Hart @ A DoFollow Blog

Brad Hart @ A DoFollow Blog — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:09:16 +0000

I have long been a proponent of using /%category%/%post-slug%/ for your permalink it not only adds a searchable keyword if you did your categories right, but only using the post slug can often times cause plugin errors with some of the more popular plugins.

I also recommend leaving the htaccess file alone unless you really know what you are doing. I also find it easier to use the redirection plugin since often times you will want or need to optimize a post slug or a lot of post slugs depending on the age of your blog. Even if it isn’t that old removing the trash words that get stuck in by default is a good SEO practice.