SEO friendly URL's in Wordpress. List of tips and options ?

[Whitey]

Could someone/s spell out the options with, and without plugins for SEO friendly, canonical URL's when creating a large ecommerce website. Our preference is to end everything with a trailing "/" and create a folder structure e,g, mywebsite.com/Canada/Toronto-Widgets/

We have a Wordpress install and it has a scary amount of plugin's that require maintenance and updates. I want to take control by considering whether we should use mod rewrite, but am looking for some guidance and feedback as we look to reduce the number of plugins that we are using and get the SEO foundations right.

Any ideas ?

[fathom]

Technically there are no UNFRIENDLY URLs today. As far as losing a ranking advantage to another domain with more ALLEGED FRIENDLY URLs for the same phrase.

[not2easy]

If you did not select and install the plugins, I would take your list to this post: [webmasterworld.com...] first to help decide what needs to go. Changing URL structure (unless the site is new) is a bad idea, and if needed, should be done within the Settings. For control of post and page metas, sitemaps and redirects if/when needed, you only need one plugin: yoast seo.

[dekostyr]

I have a problem when I make gallery in post. Wordpress automaticly make new page with unfriendly URL. When I click on image, it opens in lightbox, but wordpress make new page too.

[fathom]

dekostyr there is no such thing as an unfriendly URL today.

This /index.php?=123 works just as good /keyword.php since the laws of diminishing returns apply.