Oct 042007
While upgrading my WordPress installation, I decided that the permalink structure’s inclusion of the “/archives” string was superfluous. http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/2007/10/04/sample-post/ contains as much relevant information as http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/archives/2007/10/04/sample-post/. So I changed the permalink structure, and also installed Dean’s Permalinks Migration to take care of the 301 redirection of links to the old URLs. So far it seems to work fine; if you don’t like your permalink structure any more but don’t want to risk people getting 404s, try it out.
I agree that the “archives” part is superfluous. What I’d like to get rid of, though, is the “category” part that for some reason needs to be in the URL of all category pages. It too is superfluous, at least outside of WordPress (as in general URI design), but for some mystical reason, WordPress requires it.
Good point; I have no idea why that’s necessary. If you find out, could you let me know?
Sure!
It seems to be there to ensure there aren’t name clashes between categories and Pages. If you’re comfortable hacking the PHP, try the fix at
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/108875
I thought it was working for me; turns out (at least with 2.3.1) that clicking on the link doesn’t take you to the right spot, so I have to do some more digging when I have time.