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By: gaurav kaushik

gaurav kaushik — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:02:27 +0000

hiii
can anybody explain what should be the permalink of the custon post type because i think it make the wordpress complete cms and on the web custom post type becoming very popular but unfortunately about their permalink there is not any detailed information by the wordpress team and …otto can you explain something about the performance for permalink of custom post type..if i have more than one post type and there is thousands of post in each post type …what should be the best structure for performance?

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By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:28:04 +0000

Everywhere (also in the codex) the fix is referred to “postname”, so people like me might not understand, why ALL formerly slow structure tags are faster now (as you say in the last comment).

Sorry if it is just due to my lack of knowledge.

By: Otto

Otto — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:40:21 +0000

Umm.. None of them. That’s pretty much what this post explains.

Using an ambiguous custom permalink structure for the single-post URLs will now only result in 1 extra query. No slowdowns of any kind.

In other words, this is now considered a fixed problem. This post details the technical behavior behind the “fix”.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:38:24 +0000

Thanks for the fast response.
So whatever I change by editing, it still remains a “postname-permalink” in the eyes of WP, profiting from the performance improvements. O.k., fine.

What permalink-structures STILL can cause slow speed with a lot of pages? All permalinks using textbased structure tags (i.e. category), except “postname”?

By: Otto

Otto — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:39:16 +0000

I don’t understand your question. This doesn’t have anything to do with editing the permalink (post-slug). That wouldn’t make any difference from any angle, and there never was any performance problem associated with it.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:36:39 +0000

Hi Ptto,
thanks to your diligent report. Surely many WP-users are a bit happier now. One thing still confuses me, maybe you can clear it up. On the one hand you say “The point of all of the above is that it no longer matters which setup you use, they’re ALL (!!!) pretty much the same now from a performance standpoint.”
On the other hand you answer to Anatol “And yes, the normal methods are unchanged.”

Let’s assume, I choose the custom structure with “postname” and when creating a new page I EDIT the permalink, for example replacing the last two words by a keyword. What influence have those edits, does it still profit from your 3.3-improvement?

Thanks,

Martin

By: Otto

Otto — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:30:27 +0000

The patch is already in core and has been since WordPress 3.3.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:58:21 +0000

Can anyone clarify; is this patch now included in a default WP install or do we have to download it and apply?

thanks