Extension Request: Auto-add entry ID to URL?
Development and Programming
Not sure if this is possible, but is there a way to auto add the entry ID, or maybe just a number increment, to the URL, maybe by extension? Google News requires a four character number in the URL for it to index the entry. This means that I need to manually key it in, which in turn means that blogging tools like MarsEdit and Ecto are of no use ?
Thanks!
There isn’t a native way, but it should be easily doable with an extension.
You might take a look at Willow Light’s Smart URL Title. It’s MiT license, so you could use it as a starting place. I don’t know that you could put the entry id on it- it may be using a ‘before save’ hook and you’d need an ‘after save’ to go update it with the entry id. But- you could do something by date or some such, if all you need is 4 digits.
And I haven’t dug into it at all- you might have the entry id available or it might be super easy to switch out the hook. But it is playing around in the same area you’re interested in.