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Achieving Clean Blogger Permalinks with JavaScript and Cloudflare

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Published: 17 Jun 2026 › Updated: 17 Jun 2026Achieving Clean Blogger Permalinks with JavaScript and Cloudflare

Achieving Clean Blogger Permalinks with JavaScript and Cloudflare

Blogger's default /YYYY/MM/post-title.html URL structure feels dated. While platforms like WordPress favour clean, evergreen links, Blogger forces administrative metadata into every post. I developed a dual-layer strategy to solve this: a client-side JavaScript utility to rewrite URLs in the browser, and a Cloudflare Worker to handle server-side redirects.

Read my full post on this @ https://webgrrrl.net/archives/set-up-blogger-permalink-without-date-using-javascript-and-cloudflare.htm

While this creates professional, modern-looking links, be warned: bending legacy platforms to your will can cause indexing friction with Google. It's a powerful "vanity" tweak, but one that requires careful monitoring in Search Console to ensure your SEO authority remains intact.

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