Hey i have a site im making and have used the custom permalinks structure in the options, it's set to %postname%. This works great but a post i have made has a '-' in so when you go to the url it looks like this: .../post-title-%e2%80%93-rest-of-post-title/ Is this ok for seo purposes or shouldi change it? cheers
Could you paste or give an example of that post slug? Is it like this: this-is-my-title or this: this-is--my-title It really shouldn't be doing that, if you have the style seen in the 1st example
the dash is fine, its the %e9.... that i was wanting to to fix. the post slug is : post-title-%e2%80%93-rest-of-post-title any ideas?
Changing by going to the Permalinks section in Wordpress dashboard. Select Custom and write "%postname%" (without quotes) in the text boxes. So, it'll only show the name of the post. Eg: yoursite.com/postname/
i know, thats what it is set to but if i make a post called "Example - Part 1" the url is ....example-%e2%80%93-part-1
this is a problem with wordpress as it don't keep "-" (dash) as dash but converts into the numeric code. You can't do much about as far as I know(I myself searched for it) just void using it or better, first publish the post without - as title, than immediately edit it and add the - in title. So your url won't be having the code and your title will be having the "-" I hope I am clear enough
ahh nice one, didnt think of that lol. i even tried removing it but the url remained the same. Top tip cheers mate. By the way i found out on wordpress that the : doesnt alter the url so i decided togo with that