Comments on: Secrets to Using WordPress as a CMS

By: eileen lonergan

eileen lonergan — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:13:00 +0000

Thank you Dell!

By: Dell

Dell — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:02:01 +0000

Nice primer post Eileen. thank you for your clarification.

By: eileen lonergan

eileen lonergan — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:52:23 +0000

In reply to Don Campbell.

@Don, thank you for your clarification, very much appreciated!

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:39:39 +0000

@Don, I was of the same opinion,especially after reading all of the many blogs about the issue .. that is, until I had trouble with a site which had far less pages/posts than you have. After a lot of cursing and grumbling, what I learned was that although WordPress itself, or rather its relationship with the SQL file, only feel the effect on larger sites, that same logic didn’t apply to many plugins that rely on permalinks. Needless to say, this is an issue that WordPress is fixing because it is hindering not only the larger site, but the developers as well. With that, I begrudgingly changed my permalinks to include the ID in front of the post name. It almost disappears, but to me, it still looks like crap, so I’m eager to see the fix take place.

By: Don Campbell

Don Campbell — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:54:36 +0000

@Bob, although WP says that %postname% is handled inefficiently in the code, it only really comes into play on really large sites with lots of Pages.

I still use this method on a few pretty large sites (well, 1,000 pages/posts seems large to me, but may not be to someone else!) and have not noticed a performance impact.

I’m not disagreeing, just saying that in my experience it is more of a theoretical issue unless you have a very large website.

By: eileen

eileen — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:22:09 +0000

In reply to Bob.

Bob, thank you for telling me about the permalink structure, I hadn’t known that I should be using it right now! I noticed yesterday when I was doing a fresh install that the default permalink set up was different than what I typically see, I am going to dig deeper into this. Thank you very much for taking a moment to amend the article, I really don’t want to put out information that isn’t as accurate as possible!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:57:51 +0000

Nice primer post Eileen. Just one thing: Until WP fixes it (which I understand will be shortly), WP recommends against using %postname% for the permalink setup.

By: eileen lonergan

eileen lonergan — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:07:47 +0000

In reply to Kevin.

Thanks for your note Kevin! I agree, I don’t use anything other than WordPress either!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:03:46 +0000

Great SEO for WordPress tips. WordPress is an amazing CMS. I wouldn’t build, or let my clients use anything else.