Using permalinks Novice Novice tutorials require no prior knowledge of any specific web programming language.
Permalinks are the permanent URLs of your blog posts or pages on your WordPress site. By default, WordPress URLs structure looks like this: http://www.yourwebsite.com/?p=54. Here is a generic video explaining permalinks:
- Go to Settings > Permalinks
- Select one of the available formats:
- Default: http://www.yourwebsite.com/?p=123
- Day and name: http://www.yourwebsite.com/2008/03/31/sample-post/
- Month and name: http://www.yourwebsite.com/2008/03/sample-post/
- Numeric: http://www.yourwebsite.com/archives/123
- Post name: http://www.yourwebsite.com/sample-post
- Custom structure in the box enter the custom structure you want to use. For example: /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
- In the Optional section you'll find 2 prefixes used in URLs for category and tag archives:
- Category base box enter the custom prefix for your category URLs.
- Tags base write the custom prefix for your tag URLs
- Don't forget to click the Save Changes button
- After, you should receive two messages regarding your .htaccess
- In case your .htaccess is writeable you will receive this message: Permalink structure updated
- In case you .htaccess is not writeable you will get this message: You should update your .htaccess