Comments on: Generate search engine optimized slugs for your blog posts (Live Writer Plugin)

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:47:22 +0000

@Andreas: Thanks for looking it up. I will see if I can pick it up any time soon.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:55:43 +0000

Waldek, I started coding a function in PHP but I reasoned why reinvent the wheel? So I searched the WordPress code and found this WordPress function "remove_accents($string)". I'm sure you can port the function into your plugin in a breeze. By the way WordPress cleans all those accents when creating the link from the Title and does it very well. Honestly I don't understand why WLW drops the vowels creating a link plagued with orthographical errors.
PS: See the function at /wp-includes/formatting.php

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:16:15 +0000

@Andreas: How about replacing all the Unicode characters? One thing I would like to avoid is hardcoding the mappings between the "extended" and "basic" chars.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:47:12 +0000

Waldek, it is not so difficult really. I did it in a program in C++ some years ago. If I remeber well I parsed the string and replaced all those Extended ASCII codes from dec 128 to 165. Not big deal.
Thanks for responding.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:10:18 +0000

@Andreas: Thank you for your feedback. I will if there is an easy way to do this, as there are a lot of special characters that could be replaced with their "basic" equivalents.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:09:19 +0000

@Luis: I'm using Windows Live Writer 2011 (Build 15.4.3538.513) and while browsing the Properties I can see the Slug field just below the Author drop-down.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:24:37 +0000

I wish to drop accents from the slug. Let's say my Title "Canal de Panamá" is replaced by "canal-de-panama" in the slug.

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:50:59 +0000

I'm stuck. There is no Slug field in my up to date WLW.
In Post Properties there is only: Categories, Tags, Publish Date, Comments, Pings, Excerp and Tracked URL's. There is no SLUG field at all.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:08:50 +0000

@Chuck: it's in the post information panel (available through F2 if not visible already).

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:58:30 +0000

Where is the slug field located to paste the information into?

Thanks