leflings.dk home of Niels Flemming S. Madsen

Ian wrote about, and implemented, what he calls human-friendly URLs.

Pre­vi­ously I had used the /year/month/slug pat­tern typ­i­cal of many Word­Press blogs, i.e. http://​ian​hin​.es/​2​0​1​0​/​1​2​/​d​e​s​i​g​n​i​n​g​-​u​r​l​s​-​f​o​r​-​h​u​m​ans. This is the same pat­tern used by the likes of Shawn Blanc, Ben Brooks, and, John Gru­ber (although Gru­ber uses Mov­able Type, not Word­Press).

But, if you think about it, these URLs really beg the ques­tions: why do I care what year and month the entry was pub­lished in? Does it really mat­ter? The answer is no, it doesn’t. At least not to me.

I copied this idea of his, as frankly, I too find it a bit redundant the way WP normally creates permalinks.