How to Change the Default URL Structure in Wordpress
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This one puzzled me for a while when I first installed wordpress. I had seen blogs with a fancy URL like:
/my-great-category/my-awesome-post
But my URLs looked like
/?p=3
I had to figure out how to change that. URLs are great to put your terms of what your post is about. What I found out it is that the URL structure is called “Permalinks”. To change the default permalink structure in wordpress login to the admin area and go to Settings->Permalinks. Pretty easy! You will see some blogs like this one with the date in the URL. I wish I knew not to do this when I set my blog up. You will see some like this one that just use the category name followed by the post name. Great for getting your keywords in your URL. To get URLs like that go to the permalinks setup as described above and choose “Custom Structure” and in the text box beside it enter this:
/%category%/%postname%
I do not recommend changing your permalink structure on an existing blog. This tip is for new wordpress blogs. What do you think? Do you like keeping the date in the URL or would you rather just have the category and post name in the URL? Your comments are welcome.
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I learned that the hard way. LOL!
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Comment by shaxx — October 10, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
Good tip, I changed mine a while back…on an existing blog
The only “problem” as far as I know is your links being a little screwy in Google until they spider/index again…which shouldn’t take long.
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Comment by Dennis Edell — October 11, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
This is highly useful, it’s too bad most people don’t read advice like this right when they start blogging!
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Comment by David - Chicago — October 12, 2008 @ 3:25 am
Changing it is ok I think for new blogs but.. If your blog has links to specific posts from sites that are non-google automated.. That’s when the problem comes in.
Comment by Justin — October 12, 2008 @ 9:24 pm