Thu Tu’s Blog

My Wordpress blog url structure for posts is of this pattern: /blog/year/month/date/post-title/
Ignoring the fact that a post could also show up in /blog/ and /blog/category/ and other places, the same post could show up in:
/blog/2007/
/blog/2007/07/
/blog/2007/07/21/
/blog/2007/07/21/post-title/
The duplication is not as big of a concern (to me) as the possibly poor user experience when someone encounters one [...]

After reading this post at Google’s Webmaster Group, I was inspired to find out how to stop displaying full content on pages where posts were listed in categories, archives, etc. I am not so concerned about duplicate content as much as I don’t like for people to find a result in a category page but [...]

I wanted to switch my blog’s title tag to go from:
Thu Tu’s Blog > Post Title
to
Post Title | Thu Tu’s Blog
It turned out that it wasn’t as simple as switching the tokens around in the theme’s header.php file.
I did a search and found the solution here.
When I copied and pasted the example code, I got [...]

After much internal debate, I finally decided to change my Wordpress blog to use pretty permalinks. It was a difficult decision to make with lots of pros and cons to consider. I placed an asterisk next to cons that turned out to be irrelevant.
Cons to using or switching to pretty urls

I like the flexibility [...]