Choosing the URL structure for your site
June 7th, 2007
Today I noticed a nice feature of having a URL structure for your site based on the date (adampatten.com/2007/06/08/). When I’m looking for something on a particular site I typically use Google’s site search, its usually better than most built in searches and it I don’t have to hunt around on the site for the search form. Well today I wanted to find something on Matt Mullenweg’s site, but he has been blogging for so long that it returned lots of results and I wanted results from recent posts so I just narrowed my search using his URL structure. So not only does the URL date structure allow users to instantly know when the post was made by the URL, go directly to an archive for the day, month, or year based on the URL, it also allows users easy ways to search your site using external search engines. Too bad I lacked this knowledge when I created the URL structure for this site. But I went ahead and corrected this mistake and updated the URL structure for this site. Since there aren’t any inbound links and virtual no PR I’m not really worried about the SEO/usability issues. So learn from my mistake and use those dates in your URL structure.
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Wordpress and unfiltered HTML
June 2nd, 2007
Yesterday I discovered an interesting little feature of WordPress, unfiltered HTML. Certain users do not have the ability to create/edit post/pages with unfiltered HTML. For security reasons, I would assume, WordPress by default does not allow any users besides an admin or editor to enter unfiltered HTML. This caused a problem for me when I created some pages on a site I was working on with id and class attributes included in my markup. Everything worked fine after I added all the content, but then I had a writer updating the content and after she was done, bam! all those id and class attributes were gone! Now I had a bunch of broken anchor links and un-styled elements. Read the rest of this entry »
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