Granted, anything can be turned into a hyperlink, but that’s not really the point. I love sending plain text emails and IMs, because they are easy to read on just about any device or client. There’s something I like about being able to see the URL and know exactly what it’s (supposedly) pointing to.

I wouldn’t think it would be a big deal, but a few of my posts are starting to get linked from outside sources, like other blogs. I don’t want to break these links, and just flat out change the way wordpress generates URLs. So, I think after this post, I’m going to try to change the way my future posts are stored.

Does anyone have any advice? I’m not keen on post numbers, obviously, and plain date stamps don’t do it for me either. I know Wordpress can link via the post title, but as the blog gets older, that’s going to get cumbersome. So perhaps maybe some hybrid of the two. /year/month/title maybe?

What schemes do you use on your sites?

*edit*

Apparently, WordPress is now smart enough to automatically create redirects when you change your permalinks structure. Sweet, eh? Problem solved.

Now, apparently I’ve broken the Disqus comments that were attached to the old URLs. Please forgive me while I try to correct this.