Which WordPress permalink structure is better in terms of performance and SEO:
/%post_id%/%postname%
or
/%post_id%/%postname%/
Does it matter?
Google has big discussion here. But it's not from a WordPress perspective.
Which one should I use and why?
Edit: I noticed I get an advantage using /%post_id%/%postname% since any mistake etc after sitename/123/wrong-words?some=params&etc=etc gets redirected to the correct post. But for sitename/123/correct-full-postname/someword generates a 404.
Which WordPress permalink structure is better in terms of performance and SEO:
/%post_id%/%postname%
or
/%post_id%/%postname%/
Does it matter?
Google has big discussion here. But it's not from a WordPress perspective.
Which one should I use and why?
Edit: I noticed I get an advantage using /%post_id%/%postname% since any mistake etc after sitename/123/wrong-words?some=params&etc=etc gets redirected to the correct post. But for sitename/123/correct-full-postname/someword generates a 404.
1 Answer
Reset to default 3It makes no difference performance-wise, if it did, there'd be something seriously wrong with WordPress.
The same goes for Google, if a lot of super smart people earning 100k salaries can't write software that handles a trailing slash, then something is terribly wrong with the world.
Either way, WordPress puts the rel="canonical" tag in the header so regardless of wether there's a trailing slash or not when you visit the page, Google will see that tag and see what the canonical authoritative URL for that page is.
As a side-note, Google doesn't reserve special rules for WordPress sites, they're all just sites as far as Google is concerned.