[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6481: Fancy permalinks should be enabled on new sites

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#6481: Fancy permalinks should be enabled on new sites
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 Reporter:  Denis-de-Bernardy  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement        |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  4.2
Component:  Permalinks         |     Version:  2.7
 Severity:  normal             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch          |     Focuses:
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Comment (by GaryJ):

 Any date indicator in a URL gives no definitive indication of when post
 content was last modified. If I write an amazing post at
 `example.com/2010/foobar` but update it regularly, it sounds like you
 would not even click through to it if it were linked from somewhere else?
 Even if I turn that into a page, and point the 2010 post to it, any old
 link is still misdirecting about the content which is the important thing
 here. While you're looking for the published date, it's the last modified
 date that, if present, is potentially more informative.

 Take W3C specs as an example - there might be many revisions, and date-
 laden URLs, but the true or latest version can (nearly?) always be found
 at a URL without a date.

 As a counter example to not remembering or discovering URLs, take a URL
 that indicates a series: `example.com/foobar-part-1`. Even if there were
 no links to the later post, a curious visitor could make an educated guess
 where part 2 would be. With a URL like `example.com/2011/11/30/foobar-
 part-1`, it's simply not directly guessable.

 As for drilling down through the date archives - sure, you couldn't do
 that with `%postname%`, but most WP themes display some sort of linked
 categorical taxonomy, irrespective of the URL, and that is arguably more
 useful than searching by date.

 I do agree that it shouldn't be part of the install process.

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