shyflower
08-02-2007, 01:44 PM
This is for those who, like me, didn't take the time to read through all the WP Documentation. I just found out that you can assign your posts to multiple categories and construct your permalink to read exactly as your little heart desires it to read.
Why assign your posts to multiple categories? The best way to explain is by example. For instance, I have a post called "More Time". Its based on a memory of when my children were young. So I first assigned it to memories and then Mark (thank you Golgotha!) posted a comment that made me wish I had put it in parenting... but it was a memory... What to do?
In WP you can assign it to both categories. So, although a reader may not be interested in sharing nostalgia with me, they may be interested in what I have to say about parenting. This doubles my chance of keeping their interest and maybe adding that post or an older post to a social bookmarking site.
Then I looked over to the category slug. This "slug" is what WP uses to make your permalink -- the SEO friendly link that appears at the end of the url in a browser. If you leave the slug blank, WP uses the title of your post but titles often don't provide the focus of the topic.
So instead of just "more-time" — a phrase that no one is ever going to use in a search (or if they do they are probably looking for watches) — the permalink on my post now ends with "parenting-more_time".
Why assign your posts to multiple categories? The best way to explain is by example. For instance, I have a post called "More Time". Its based on a memory of when my children were young. So I first assigned it to memories and then Mark (thank you Golgotha!) posted a comment that made me wish I had put it in parenting... but it was a memory... What to do?
In WP you can assign it to both categories. So, although a reader may not be interested in sharing nostalgia with me, they may be interested in what I have to say about parenting. This doubles my chance of keeping their interest and maybe adding that post or an older post to a social bookmarking site.
Then I looked over to the category slug. This "slug" is what WP uses to make your permalink -- the SEO friendly link that appears at the end of the url in a browser. If you leave the slug blank, WP uses the title of your post but titles often don't provide the focus of the topic.
So instead of just "more-time" — a phrase that no one is ever going to use in a search (or if they do they are probably looking for watches) — the permalink on my post now ends with "parenting-more_time".