WordPress:Permalinks Options SubPanel

Settings → Permalinks

By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them, however WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives. This can improve the aesthetics, usability, and forward-compatibility of your links.

For a more in depth description of the way this structure is specified, see the WordPress:Using Permalinks article. For an introduction to Permalinks, read the Pretty Permalinks section of WordPress:Introduction to Blogging.

640px|right|Settings Permalinks SubPanel

Back to WordPress:Administration Panels.

Customize Permalink Structure

A number of tags are available, and here are some examples to get you started.

Common settings

Check one of the radio buttons corresponding to the correct Permalink Structure for your blog.

• Default - An example of the default structure is http://www.sample.com/?p=123

• Day and name - An example of the day and name based structure is http://www.sample.com/2008/03/31/sample-post/

• Month and name - An example of the monthe and name based structure is http://www.sample.com/2008/03/sample-post/

• Numeric - An example of the numeric structure is http://www.sample.com/archives/123

• Custom structure - In the box specify the custom structure you desire to use. One example is /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/. Look at the WordPress:Using Permalinks article for further discussion of Permalink Structure Tags.

Optional

You may enter custom bases for your category and tag URLs here. For example, using /topics/ as your category base would make your category links like http://example.org/topics/uncategorized/. If you leave these blank the defaults will be used. Again, see the WordPress:Using Permalinks article for further discussion of Permalink Structure Tags.

• Category base - Enter a custom prefix for your category URLs here.
• Tag base - Enter a custom prefix for your tag URLs here.

Save Changes

Click the Save Changes button to ensure any changes you have made to your Settings are saved to your database. Once you click the button, a confirmation text box will appear at the top of the page telling you your settings have been saved.

Back to WordPress:Administration Panels.