Comments on: WordPress Post Slug: Use It Efficiently

By: Claire Bone

Claire Bone — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:07:31 +0000

Thank you for the explanation of the slug. I am just starting blogging and when I was trying to make a Pretty Link it asked what was the slug. I have been trying all day to find it, and when I did what to put in it. Thanks everybody for the posts, I sure learned from everyone!

Slugging on,……..

eClaires

By: Kermit

Kermit — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:11:19 +0000

I know I am late to this post, but I am building a new blog and as I was entering the categories, I once again pondered the use of the slug. It is an item that has never been clear to me. Should I use a hyphen, should I use an underscore, or should I run the keywords together?

Your post at least gives me some insight into the potential power of slugs – thank you! There is surprisingly very little out there about slugs and their use.

I think Dave may be right – only testing will tell if it matters how I configure them.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:20:42 +0000

Good information here, I have just created a wordpress blog and the features and functionality look mind numbingly complicated when compared to the livejournal account options that I have, so this little explanation was welcomed, thank you

Steve

By: jan geronimo

jan geronimo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:24:15 +0000

Valuable advice to help the search engines find my blog. Question: I’ve got 150+ posts behind me. Should I bother tinkering with them to carve out the stop words and thus hopefully make them more web search friendly?

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:44:20 +0000

Excellent article on WordPress post slug. Slugs have been a hole in my knowledge… and some of my URLs show it!

As for who’s correct, Daniel or, uh, Daniel… I’m going to throw some fuel on this and say: Without testing, it’s simply opinion.

In any case, thanks again for the article and hosting the conversation. I definitely learned something.