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By: Elsie

Elsie — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:17:04 +0000

Very interesing. Thanks Daniel for the wisdom.

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By: Daniel J. Lewis

Daniel J. Lewis — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:29:13 +0000

I've seen mixed opinions on revealing the date. Some themes (or just peoples' choices) hide the posted date. This is terribly annoying when the author is not a good writer and they use relative terms and never reveal an absolute date.

Some people feel that a post with a date will seem outdated after a while. I personally disagree. Especially with technical information, I want to know when the post was written so I can figure out whether it's still relevant.

I think it's more important to have the date on the page than in the URL.

And adding a date won't allow WordPress to use the exact same slug, such as:

2011/top-ten-apps
2012/top-ten-apps

Instead, WordPress would turn it into:

2011/top-ten-apps
2012/top-ten-apps-2

By: Elsie

Elsie — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:26:30 +0000

Thanks for the info Daniel! Do you think it's beneficial to have the year? I often search for the date on people's posts to see how current the article is, especially if I'm searching for the most up to date information. What do you think?

By: Daniel J. Lewis

Daniel J. Lewis — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:11:04 +0000

Having the year can be nice, but it's certainly no longer required with WordPress 3.3. There used to be a performance penalty to /%postname%/, but they fixed that in WordPress 3.3.