URL structure with pages, videos, etc. categories missing
By Sabih on Sunday, 27 November 2016
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Hey there,

I just recognized that pages behave the same way as videos do and the category itself is not mentioned in the url. I just wonder about this because I would say easily that having the category inside the url would be a big improvement without any negative effect. First you can have different pages with same title in different categories which google will probably understand the better way. Let's say you have Star Wars in movie category and Star Wars in videogames. Searching google for Star Wars would give better results when urls are:

domain/pages/movies/19-star-wars
domain/pages/games/37-star-wars

instead of

domain/pages/19-star-wars
domain/pages/37-star-wars

Are there any plans to improve the urls for videos and pages or is this way as it is now intended?
We have thought about this and eventually scrapped this idea. Why?

1. Pre-pending a category before the permalink of the object would mean you need to run 2 different queries to just fetch an item as opposed to not running any query at all right now since the ID is prefixed.

2. When we remove the "ID-" prefix in the future, it will end up running more SQL queries just to get the id of that object.

3. When we start pushing nested categories in the future, it will cause chaos. This is exactly the problem that we faced in EasyDiscuss

4. People are looking for shorter urls these days and introducing this, would mean their url starts getting longer and we eventually need to add a settings for this which also makes matters worst.
Mark
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Sunday, 27 November 2016 16:02
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