Wordpress 2.8.x Permalinks Tutorial
This is a quick easy tutorial on how to work with permalinks, how they work and what they are (in wordpress 2.8.x)
This is a step by step tutorial on how to configure your permalinks.
What you need to do first is login to your admin panel in wordpress.
To do this you need to go to your base url and write wp-admin at the right of it. Then hit enter (if you are a experienced wordpress user this might be offensively easy, but hey, so is the tutorial for what it is..).
That will bring you to the login screen:
Here you enter your user name and password to log in. Once logged in, you notice the menu on the left side… you need to go to Settings, Permalinks like so:
This next part is the main part of the whole tutorial: the actual Permalinks page with the options.
If you have a fresh Wordpress install you will have the default checkbox activated like in the picture above.I should probably warn you if your host does not support mod_rewrite or it’s turned off (most likely version), only the default checkbox will work.
The default checkbox as you may notice has the base url of the wordpress installation and a ?p=123. The p stands for post and 123 is a id of the page. That is just an example. There are plenty of names for each type of page s for search cat for category and page_id for post id. All of these can be replaced by other structure names like Day name and month name, numeric or custom in order to provide a better SEO compatibility. So it is highly recommended you use one of the options except for Default one.
The day and name structure replaces the ?p=123 with a more friendly name: Year/mont/day/post-name. It is possible to actually create a path based on /name/anothername/thirdname because of a custom edit of the .htaccess file that wordpress does in order to redirect some url’s behind the scenes, understand the location on a page and create a more friendly URL based on it.
Day and name option is a good option for a url but not so commonly used…
Exact same rules apply for Month and name and Numeric where each link is created based on that rule (for month and name no day and for numeric just numbers with no ? or p=.
The most commonly used structure I’ve seen on most blogs is the Month and Name
Next comes the Custom Structure:
Custom structure let’s you make a structure name how ever you wish based on names like %year%, %monthnum%, %postname%, %hour%, %minute%, %second%, %category, %tag%, %author% that you can arrange how ever you want…
A more detailed example of Permalinks can be found here(on wordpress.org). This tutorial is a easier version with just the basic stuff(not to complicated and hopefully easier to understand). For any questions post a comment here…
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