More recent versions of WordPress do not generate URLs with dates in them anymore... instead they new use page IDs.
@Doug, Can you provide a link to this? AFAIK, this only happens on an install by default, then if you want the link with the date in it, you set it:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
Thanks for the reminder Jason, you're right. I haven't used
day+name or
month+name permalink settings. I've used the
post-name setting which generates the URLs in the same format sNews uses - example:
http://mydomainname.ca/sample-post/For sNews, links like this is possible - MDJ started that path here: http://www.mdj.us/snews-cms/hacks-mods/compact-archives-for-snews-17/
Example on Sven's site: http://on-air.hiseo.fr/archive/
Incorporating it, that is a different story.
The URL links on
MDJ's Archive page and
Sven's Archive page don't have dates inserted between the root URL and the category/title ... they appear to be normal sNews links when I mouse over them.
I think the issue
jjones3535a had in his lead post (Feb.27.08) is that he probably have a number of URL links in his WordPress page or blog content that use
day+name permalink structure ... and they would not work as-is (he would need to manually edit them all) if he migrated his data to an sNews site.
Now... if
jjones3535a had chosen the
post-name permalink setting when he enabled it, then all of his links would have been generated like sNews links from the start and those he copied and pasted into content would have been that way as well. He could have gone back into his W-P Admin >> Settings >> Permalinks panel and changed the setting from
day+name to
post-name, but he still would have had to edit each link manually in blog post and page content to match after doing it.
With respect to
deathcrot's Blogspot site, I don't know how it manages link structure. But, in his case, he would have to manually edit any links he had within blog post or page content as well in order to connect with sNews articles and pages if he migrated the existing data from his Blogpost to an sNews site.
