Title: Permalink structure
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Permalink structure

 *  [lars](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lars/)
 * (@lars)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure/)
 * Can it be changed to double-digit days and months, e.g. 2004/01/05 instead of
   2004/1/5/?

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 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure/#post-29587)
 * Why?
 *  Thread Starter [lars](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lars/)
 * (@lars)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure/#post-29589)
 * alright then:
    1) it seems to be more common, a convention if you will – I have
   dozens of examples, but I don’t think you need them since they are in your blogroll
   too; photomatt is actually one of the few weblogs I read regularly that omits
   leading zeros in permalinks, 2) I think it looks more familiar to people not 
   used to permalinks or any dates in URIs whatsoever, and it is closer to the ISO
   date standard (which is YYYY-MM-DD, i.e. with double digits) arguably giving 
   a more intuitive feel for the order of month and date, 3) it just looks better
   when the links have the same length and variables have the exact same position
   all the way up until the title, 4) as a principle, the publisher should be given
   as many options as possible, and 5) I’m pretty much happy with everything else.(
   it was at this point that the uniform-clad Matt, visible only as a dark silhouette
   against a sunrise over a war-torn landscape, started to shout out his frustration…
   🙂
 *  [seriocomic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seriocomic/)
 * (@seriocomic)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure/#post-29605)
 * I agree…if only to have it display like 05012003 or 20030105, rather than 200315…
   ick
 *  [antifuse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antifuse/)
 * (@antifuse)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure/#post-29655)
 * Agreed… double digit months/dates are just prettier. But that’s just in my own
   opinion… it’s easy enough to fix it for the permalinks, but the day/month links(
   used in the calendar) require a bit more work to tweak.
 *  [kam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kam/)
 * (@kam)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure/#post-29656)
 * I agree too. It’s just _the better way_. I’m not an PHP programmer, however from
   what i see in **wp-includes/template-functions.php** it shouldn’t take anything
   more, than reformatting few vars in **get_month_link()** and **get_day_link()**(
   and probably in few more places – i just did 10-minutes-code-scan). And, of course,
   some changes in regexp within RewriteRule. Or i’m just wrong 🙂
 *  [antifuse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antifuse/)
 * (@antifuse)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure/#post-29659)
 * Actually the RewriteRule should probably work for either way. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [lars](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lars/)
 * (@lars)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure/#post-29807)
 * bump, as I’m rather keen for an answer to this.
 *  [elliotlee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elliotlee/)
 * (@elliotlee)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure/#post-30077)
 * Hm, have the developers seen this yet?
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure/#post-30078)
 * my only problem… if implemented now for old users, it will break all their links
   🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure/#post-30078)
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