Feature Requests – Page 2 – Not Your Average Engineer

I get the feeling that I need to change the way I do my permalinks in my wordpress installation. Currently, I just use %postname% which provides for pretty structures with my pages (a good thing) but makes duplication of names in my blog posts problematic. Also, longer titles, such as this post’s, cause a bit of an unruly URL to result. Then again, it is more descriptive than the default which just spits out a post or page number.

There certainly are plugins available to migrate a permalink structure which would be useful were I to change mine. This website claims the best permalink structure is a “blog/category/postname” hierarchy. I definately like the use of the “blog” part of that permalink structure in that it separates off posts from pages (at least that’s what I would assume it does…). People on this forum seem to think that using a “category/postname” or “postname” structure will significantly slow down your database. The WordPress Codex states that using only “postname” has the potential to screw up things within WordPress although there is a note that questions if this is still true in 2.0+ versions.

It seems that there are a whole bunch of opinions out there. I wonder which is the best and most relevant for my website’s situation.

Throughout my day I often use three or four different computers and virtual terminal servers scattered across Oregon. While operating on the College of Engineering network, my bookmarks transport between terminals. However, when hopping between my laptop and my work computer or to other computers, my bookmarks do not transfer. Likewise, between browersers, my bookmarks do not transfer. Especially with Google Chrome coming out today, I will be even more likely to switch between two or three browsers even on the same computer in a given day.

Looking online, Wikipedia has a decent list of programs but I don’t see anything that catches my fancy and allows me to save to my own server. That last point is key. I want control over where my bookmarks go.

If anyone knows of anything that might fit the bill, I’d be quite happy to try it out.

UPDATE: And no, I don’t particularly want to use Google’s Bookmarks tool as it is anything but seamlessly integrated into my browser. Maybe if they’d make it integrate into browsers, then I’d use it. Even then, I don’t particularly want my bookmarks stored on Google’s servers. I have enough issues as it is with storing my email at the Googleplex.

Category: Feature Requests

Best practices for permalink structures?

For the want of an online bookmark syncronizer