Most commercial blogging platforms use a fixed URL structure, known
as a "permalink", to identify posts – something like
"http://www.myblog.com/2012/09/13/This-Is-My-Post.html". This structure
makes it easy to reference a particular post, supports
trackbacks/pingbacks, and makes it simple for search crawlers to locate
content. Unfortunately, the SharePoint 2010 Blog template has no concept
of how an actual blog platform should work – permalinks are an entirely
foreign concept. Because SharePoint stores blog posts as individual
list items, the URL structure is comprised of a fixed root path with a
query string parameter for the item ID, such as
"http://www.binarywave.com/blogs/eshupps/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=270".
Awful stuff.
Short of writing an HTTP Handler to construct friendly URL's,
SharePointers are stuck with this less-than-optimal format. That being
said, it would be helpful if the various views for the Posts list in a
blog actually used this link structure to refer to each item but, alas,
they don't; instead, they use and even worse path identifier that
references an application page in the _layouts directory with parameters
for the list and item ID (i.e.
"http://www.myblog.com/_layouts/listform.aspx?PageType=4&ListId={89CBE813-99F7-4257-A23A-5FEFC377336B}&ID=269").
This is the equivalent of not only forgetting to put bullets in your
gun but leaving the gun behind at the saloon on your way to the OK
Corral – in other words, it makes an already bad situation even worse...
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