Some may have noticed but they do not know how to do it. Or maybe they don’t bother enough with it.
By default, in Wordpress, your post urls will be displayed by using it’s post id. But with permalinks, you can beautify your urls with something more meaningable. Instead by using post id number like this,
http://www.cypherhackz.net/?p=592
you can change it to something like this
http://www.cypherhackz.net/archives/2007/03/25/beautify-your-urls-with-permalinks/
But how do I do that? Here I will show you how.
- First, go to your Options and click on Permalinks tab
- There, you will see, 4 common options that you can choose from. And of course, by default, the Default option is selected
- If you want to change your post urls to like mine, you can use this structure under Custom option.
/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
- Then, click Update Permalink Structure
Actually, what that structure do is, the url will be transformed into according the structure tags we use.
/archives – this will be your archives folder (virtually)
%year% – the year of the post been published. Eg: 2007
%month% – the month of the post been published. Eg: 03
%day% – the day of the post been published. Eg: 25
%postname% – the post title. Eg: beautify-your-urls-with-permalinks
There are more structure tags that you can choose from. All of the structure tags can be found at Wordpress Codex – Using Permalinks.
Btw, do you mind to share your permalink structure with us? You can do that by post it by using the comment form below.[tags]permalinks, tutorial, tips[/tags]
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nie salah satu teknik SEO kan?
aah. salah satu teknik SEO.
for the ease of blog’s restructuring, i think
%month%/%postname% should be suitable. (johnchow use %postname% only though)
Initially when i started blogging , i was also not aware of it , but now i use similar to yours .
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by using my structure, your readers can surf your archive easier. if s/he want to go to archive Mac 2006, they just enter /archives/2006/03/ in the url.
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me too. but using this permalinks is much more efective when it comes to SEO
Well you could do this: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%.html Just adding .html
Note that this does not generate actual .html files. It is only an illusion. There is no benefit to this… some people mistakenly think it offers search engine benefits, and some want their permalinks to emulate those of another publishing system. Its cleaner.
I just posted a similar article in Spanish language. Please follow this link:
http://weblatam.com/wp/wordpre.....ly-url/37/
you can also add .html to make it seem like a html file. just like this /archives/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/.html
its an illusion but its:) more on http://www.kabatology.com
Tolong saya dong….gimana caranya supaya blog saya bisa pakai permalinks, soalnya hostingnya pake shared windows server
I am not sure whether this will work or not but this entry might helps you to use the permalinks.
I have found out that netfirms does not have the mod_rewrite module installed on their server, which stops us designers from having the "Pretty Permalinks" all I can get to work correctly are those ugly permalinks! BEWARE!
mo nanya nie pa bisa pake extensi html pada permalinks nya
cos saya pernah nyoba tapi extensinya ngk keliatan tue
contohnya saya pakai gini /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%.html
Page can’t be found when i use any other permlink then the one with the parameter. What am i doing wrong? Or can i be the server doing something wrong?
Ofcourse your pages will cannot be displayed if you change the permalinks structure. But there is a plugin that will redirect old links to the new link structure.
Thanks for your nice article on the topic of permalinks and provided and simple customized way. Before reading the article, I don’t have right idea of the term even that what is permalinks and why we shoud use it in the search engince optimization.
Now I have tried it and soon tell you that what kind of benefit I got by using it according to your instructions.
Best Regards
Future Pakistan
No problem. Thanks for visiting my site.
I’m baffled how to do permalinks with subpages. All the documentation is *really* unhelpful since it talks about permalink structures with posts. Fine, but my site has some pages on it too and there doesn’t appear to be any docs about that.
Francis
The documentation is very unclear on this but using postname on static pages means your page title will be appended to the url
http:/www.yoursite.com/post-name
would give http://www.yoursite.com/page-title as the url
You set this up by going to permalink settings on one of your pages and setting up a custom structure.
I user this permalinks tag : /%category%/%postname%.html
I’ve just start created a blog using a very amazing theme called Lightbreaker, and now get idea to optimize it. A good idea for using a beautiful permalinks such your article. Thank you
Please check my blog : http://pesonafm.co.nr/
In principle I agree, but there are some nyuansy, which require more detailed discussions.
It was very useful
Thank you!
hye all…….
Thank you very much!! Very helpful and made something that seemed difficult, quite simple.
under custom urls i just added /%postname%/ and now all my pages have pretty urls.
Still working on it and is my first site but feel free to check it out onlinedatabackupandstorage.com
Permalinks is a great way to make the URL search engine friendly and more readable to yourself, others and search engines also.
Hi there
I’m a blog newbie, so before breaking anyhting I just wanted to ask: If I simply change the permalink type on my wp-dashboard will that be it? (In the wp-codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks) there’s a whole lot of stuff I don’t understand. So I don’t know if I have to take any precautions.) What happens to my old posts and pages? I suppose their links change as well so that links pointing to them will lead nowhere, right?
Thanks for any help!
caner yer nak tukar postname?boleh ker?
Хм, к размышлению…
Great post – I’ve used what you said here on my website.
Cheers,
Dan
very very good
i hope more………
Yes, very good. We are using it on our FPPT.info site with powerpoint templates. Works fantastic.
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
I love your site.
Love design!!! I just came across your blog and wanted to say that I
Putting category and tags in permalinks is asking to get hammered for duplicate content when spiders go to the tags index and follow it and then to the category index and follow it. You end up with multiple links to the same destination. I have simply started using only the post title. In addition I set the archives, categories and tags to “no index” and to make sure have a cananical link listed in the header. There are plugins to do all those things easily.
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Cool, good article, just the info I was looking for. Will have a go changing this on my site now. Thanks.
Cool Link
Cool,
I wanted to know how to replace the default /search/ with /what-ever/
Thanks,
-DP