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• Started 4 years ago by smartboy
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Slugs vs Ugly Permalinks

1. • 
   • smartboy
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   • Posted 4 years ago #

   What are your thoughts on permalink styles? Do you prefer Slugs or one of the ugly choices?

   Personally, I feel that slugs are better for SEO, but I can see that the URL's could get pretty long quite quickly.

   Also, if you have a post with the same exact TITLE as another, will this foul up the SLUGS url's?

   Thank you for your thoughts.
2. • 
   • chrishajer
   • Moderator

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   In WordPress, when a page title is the same as a previous one, the slug gets a number appended to it, like this-was-written-about-before-1, so I imagine bbPress has the same protection built in. The slug needs to be unique.
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   • fel64
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   • Posted 4 years ago #

   It does indeed.
4. • 
   • smartboy
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   • Posted 4 years ago #

   Thank you for the information; I really appreciate it. That's just another reason why I am thinking I will continue to use slugs!

   Merry Christmas!

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