I think I remember reading there can be problems with using straight /%postname%/ without the dates, especially as amounts of posts grows, because of how wordpress works. But I dont remember the thread.
I’ve been doing research on this and read:
“For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields. The reason is that these are text fields, and using them at the beginning of your permalink structure it takes more time for WordPress to distinguish your Post URLs from Page URLs (which always use the text “page slug” as the URL), and to compensate, WordPress stores a lot of extra information in its database (so much that sites with lots of Pages have experienced difficulties).”
I’ve been looking for ways I CAN use /%postname%/ not reasons I shouldn’t. I want my urls to be clean and “pretty” as stated in wordpress’ permalink page. However I know that it may not be possible right now. I’m still trying to see if anyone knows something I don’t about this topic. I’ve been scouring forums for answers and come up with nothing.
How about using /%post_id%/%postname%/? In theory, that should satisfy the need for a numeric but minimise the impact on your urls.
I’ll accept that format for now, only because I’m running out of time. Thank you Esmi.
