[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15378: Post formats should have built-in index pages

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#15378: Post formats should have built-in index pages
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 Reporter:  nacin        |       Owner:           
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  3.1      
Component:  Themes       |     Version:  3.1      
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:  has-patch
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Changes (by gazouteast):

 * cc: gazouteast (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:14 Otto42]:
 > The wildcard base URLs are reserved for Pages. I don't think we should
 pre-empt them by default.
 >
 > Really you're looking at two different things here:
 > a) Having format index pages (/format/aside).
 > b) Allowing taxonomy based URLs to have no base.
 >
 > Two different things, and I'd separate them into separate tickets. Just
 make this do /format/whatever for now, come back and think about no-bases
 for later.

 Otto - very surprised to be reading this from you - forward-looking, the
 problem will be even worse than the one caused by capital_P_dangit.
 You're opening up a 404-avalanche risk.

 If 3.1 rolls with the /format/ layer embedded in the permalinks, then 3
 months later 3.1.1 rolls with it removed (or optional) - how many millions
 of pages on WordPress based sites are suddenly going to have masses of
 404s reporting in Google analytics, and get de-indexed?  Not to mention
 breaking of internal and external links to pages and taxonomies in a "we
 had it, now we don't" game of hide and seek regarding the /formats/ layer.

 I'm very surprised @greenshady hasn't weighed in on this point yet - this
 type of problem projection is usually his forte.

 Gaz

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