Just caught this little nugget on Ryan Boren’s WordPress.com blog, tracking the progress of the upcoming WordPress 1.6 release:
1.6 adds…. a nice, compact set of rules that has the advantage of not requiring updates whenever a page is added. htaccess needs to be writable only when it is first populated. WordPress handles rewrite and 404 duties.
If you’re baffled by that passage, fear not. It boils down to this: it’s about to become a lot easier, and more secure, to make your WordPress blog much more attractive to search engines.
I’m delighted by all the promised interface enhancements and so on… but I’m thrilled by this.
