Useful wordpress hacks

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[swollenpickles]

Here's a link to some super useful wordpress hacks.

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/wordpress-theme-hacks/

[StephenCronin]

That is a really good article - Thanks.

However, I'm against the use of category in the permalink structure, for the following reasons:

1. if you decide you want to change your category structure (always possible with a new blog), you can't do so without breaking the permalinks.

2. if you post using the wrong category, you can't move the post to the correct category without breaking the permalinks.

Basically if you use category in the permalink structure, you can never rename or delete a category, and you can never move posts from one category to another (unless you want to get into permalink redirection which is messy). Not a good idea!

If I was starting again, I'd just go with postname.

[swollenpickles]

That is a really good article - Thanks.

However, I'm against the use of category in the permalink structure, for the following reasons:

1. if you decide you want to change your category structure (always possible with a new blog), you can't do so without breaking the permalinks.

2. if you post using the wrong category, you can't move the post to the correct category without breaking the permalinks.

Basically if you use category in the permalink structure, you can never rename or delete a category, and you can never move posts from one category to another (unless you want to get into permalink redirection which is messy). Not a good idea!

If I was starting again, I'd just go with postname.

That's a good point. When I started I thought categories were a good idea (it seemed logical to me), but now if I start anything new I just use post names.

[Sueblimely]

Postname only for me. Apart from the considerations Stephen mentioned I like to keep it simple for the search engines.