Configuring WordPress Permalinks
Having problems configuring your permalinks? Is your post url difficult to read? Need a bit of SEO help for your blog? Here is a good guide on how to set up those pesky permalinks on your blog.
Quite often, we hear of the terms (permalinks or pretty permalinks) which can also be called SEO-friendly URLs. These URLs are not only SEO friendly, but I believe they are human friendly as well. By default, WordPress uses URLs that look like a mishmash of letters and numbers with a few question marks mixed in for good measure. These types of links are frowned upon by search engine spiders and as a human being, they are also hard to read.
Fortunately, WordPress provides a way for us to change this linking structure to something understandable. WordPress calls these Permalinks. Permalink settings can be configured a number of different ways. One of the ways to quickly configure permalinks is by choosing one of the Common Options. These common options include:
Default – http://www.domain.com/?p=123
Date and name based – http://www.domain.com/2008/01/15/sample-post/
Numeric – http://www.domain.com/archives/123
There is no sense in using the default option so choose either Date and name based or Numeric if you don’t feel like tinkering with the Custom Structure.
The custom structure of the permalinks settings area allows you to customize the way permalinks are displayed by using any combination of the following permalink tags.
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