Watch those permalinks

Permalinks are great, they clean up the ugly ?id=X structure and makes URL:s easy to read and, if necessary, remember. However, if you put special characters in your title and don’€™t review the permalink before hitting that lovely Publish button, you’€™ll get an URL that’€™s even worse than the default ones.

You see, permalinks are usually converted from the post title automatically, and if you’€™ve got special characters in there it’€™ll either remove them entirely (that’€™s the good solution), or replace them with lots of funny characters (% and such). If the latter is the case, you’€™ll get an extremely long and clunky permalink that looks like shit.

So here’€™s the tip! Check your permalinks and beware of special characters – Microsoft Word will give you tons of those if you copy-paste from there. What’€™s the use of permalinks if they look awful?

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