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Playing with Permalink

December 9th, 2008 By admin

By default, WordPress URLs are in the format of:
http://blogtipper.com/index.php?page_id=1

This looks really cool and I love it but as I play more with my blog, I experienced an inconvenience:

- Internal linking: I created links between my blog posts and as the number of posts grow (page_id=1, page_id=2, page_id=3,…), I lost track of which ID refers to which post

Basing on the previous plugins digging experience, I digged the WordPress admin interface directly this time hahaha.

After a minute, I found the Permalinks option under Settings on the top right corner of the browser.

Configuring Permalinks was pretty easy under WordPress. There are pre-configured options for us to choose from. There is even a custom feature for us to design our own URL format

After messing around with the pre-configured options, I decided to set my own custom config

Instructions:

1. Click on Settings on the top right corner
2. Click on Permalinks
3. Click on Custom Structure
4. Enter this into the field: /%postname%/
5. Save changes
6. My blog URLs are now in the format of domain.com/blog-title/. Example: Glossary of Blogging Terms

 

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