Let there be slugs!
If it wasn't obvious, I've been taking a look at how WordPress handles post slugs in an attempt to support the same URI strategy here at my own blog. Since my blog is home-grown and doesn't utilize the many man hours that have gone into creating WordPress' advanced rewriting routines, the problem presented a learning opportunity and a chance to tinker with my CMS, something I haven't done in quite a while.
Luckily for me, I don't have to support all the user-configurable, dynamic URI structures that WordPress does, so I was able to come up with a solution I'm happy with in a couple of hours.
In an effort to maintain the Google Juice I've already collected at blog posts that were structured using the now "old school" /item.php?id=n URI scheme, I've left those posts as is. Because recent posts like Hal0 Ski11z and Matching Digits in a mod_rewrite RewriteRule haven't had the benefit of the time it takes to gather the juice, I hacked away at those posts to test how my CMS would handle the new URI scheme. Now that I seem to have it working correctly site-wide, I've decided to incorporate the automatic generation of slugs to the posting process, so this post should be the first real post to have automatically had a slug generated for it (and corresponding feed entry).
This change should make my URIs more readable and should address an SEO issue I've been aware of for a while.
If you spot anything acting funky, or links not working, please leave a comment or contact me via email.
However, if things seem "sluggish," it's by design! ;)
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