Fixing the ‘permalink’ URL on a WordPress blog
September 4, 2012
A lot of the students here have generic URLs for their WordPress posts. This is something a savvy person wants to change, because the generic URL makes you look like a WordPress novice. Like you don’t care about your blog.
Changing this is very easy.
If your URL to a blog post looks like this, you should change it:
The number at the end of the URL is what makes you look like a noob. Here’s how to change it:
The most common choices (below) are:
- Month and name
- Post name
If you want to try a custom structure, find the heading Structure Tags on this page:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
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