2014-02-19, 07:03:21
Essentially I just want to be able to set all my news posts to have a permalink that conforms to the example.com/news/yyyymmdd format. And it needs to be something that I configure once and never have to worry about again. It shouldn't be an additional per-post option that I have to click-click-click to set up for every news post I publish.
(1) Editing the post publish date.
I suppose there will be people who made mistakes and want to adjust that, in which case I think the permalink should change as well. I look at editing a "news" post date as equivalent to deleting the old post and creating a new one, because the date of a "news" post is a core aspect of the post itself.
(2) Pre-populating.
It was just my bad attempt at achieving the same thing as your option to just have all posts use the defined slug structure. What you have in mind is much better.
(1) Editing the post publish date.
I suppose there will be people who made mistakes and want to adjust that, in which case I think the permalink should change as well. I look at editing a "news" post date as equivalent to deleting the old post and creating a new one, because the date of a "news" post is a core aspect of the post itself.
(2) Pre-populating.
It was just my bad attempt at achieving the same thing as your option to just have all posts use the defined slug structure. What you have in mind is much better.