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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:46:26 +0000

You are right. The date does not have to be in the URL. However, there are a few reasons why it should be.

If your content is date-oriented, it helps to date the content.
If your content is covered under the ISBN or other “published matter” licensing or registration, it must have some “obvious and blatant” (I think those are close to the words) date associated with the posts in line with published print material. Like a magazine “issue” date.
It prevents screw-ups with using the same post title. With the date, the title stays unique, even if you repeat the title “I have a great idea” 46 times.

If none of those apply, you do not need dates in your URL.

By: Marios Alexandrou

Marios Alexandrou — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:02:53 +0000

It might be too late now, but I also think the date isn’t needed in the URL. The date can help prevent duplicate URLs from being created, but a little care in naming posts can take of that too. Having a date in the path just makes previous posts look old increasing the chance that they’ll be ignored if they show up in search results. Just an opinion of course…

By: engtech

engtech — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:27:49 +0000

Might want to check out this tip from Daniel Speed Up Your Site - Use Slashes on Your Links. The comments alone make it worth reading.

By: Bes Z

Bes Z — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:42:02 +0000

Good point. I have my site setup to show permalinks for posts after the prefix “/blog”, so the site will show a post called “gallery” as [example]:

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/blog/gallery [using your site as an example as I don't want to spam]

and the gallery will show as

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/gallery/

I am guessing, like you said, one needs to plan well. I myself chose the “blog/” structure just because I wanted to have something unique for posts and not confuse posts with the rest of the site. Reading your post, I am happy that I [hopefully] made a good choice.

By: mandarine

mandarine — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:47:57 +0000

Just for the record: if like me (apparently because of hosting provider server settings) one cannot go for the true permalinks but only for the /index.php/gallery, then I guess there is no problem in that case.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:12:53 +0000

Lorelle, a solution to that would be to first do a search and replace for /gallery/ on your blog to a new folder name(which you would have renamed) and then create the gallery slug.

I did that to my blog http://ajaydsouza.com/ when I got fedup of the piles of files in wp-content as the structure was from the pre 2.x days.