Tim
On 10/24/06, Tim Connor <
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I went with this approach as a low hanging fruit, and if it stays a plugin forever, for those who want it, that's cool with me. I actually considered the centrally allocated number (the id) a bonus. This is more for keeping the handy date/title URI, but just tweaking it a tiny bit so that the text is editable, without invalidating the permalink. As for look of the URL, maybe it is a tiny bit more obscure, but I didn't really think it could be much so. Compare:
old: http://www.timocracy.com/articles/2006/10/24/funny-rails-shirts-test-of-the-emergency-broadcast-system
new: http://www.timocracy.com/articles/2006/10/24/24-funny-rails-shirts-test-of-the-emergency-broadcast-system
Maybe it does loose the clarity of the date then? It wouldn't take too much work to make it
new: http://www.timocracy.com/articles/2006/10/24/article-24-funny-rails-shirts-test-of-the-emergency-broadcast-system or something similar.
Now if someone wanted a more wiki-ish permalink scheme, it actually would be pretty easy*, I just like throwing the numeric ID in there, because nobody looks at blog URIs as much as wiki ones, since they are more likely to be interblog than intrablog, thus will have the whole domain and all that cruft (from the view of a human readable resource) in the link, anyways. I just took this, http://www.notsostupid.com/blog/2006/07/07/urls-on-rails/, and re-added the id, since we already have the rest of the slug.
Thanks for the feedback. :D
Tim
*Hell, if there were demand, I might be tempted to design a fuller featured plugin that gave you a preference of permalink schemes.
TimOn 10/24/06, John Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On 10/24/06, Tim Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:_______________________________________________I made a plugin to prefix the ID to the title, in the permalink, so that you can edit your permalink at will. Of course it does all the appropriate things to find articles by the old links, too, to not invalidate the old permalinks. Anyone is welcome to grab it from http://code.google.com/p/typo-permalink-with-id/ or read more about it on that category in my blog: http://www.timocracy.com/articles/category/typo-permalink-with-id
And the developers are welcome to mainline it, and thus make it obselete, if they like it.
Very interesting. But if Typo is going to get a mainline feature to allowing old permalinks to continue working after updates, I'd prefer storing old permalinks and doing a redirect like MediaWiki, as opposed to putting a centrally allocated number in the URI. The URIs just look cleaner.
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