Use Permalinks in Wordpress

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Setting your desired Permalinks structure is the first thing you should do after installing your WordPress blog because search engines index your blog based on post URLs and if you change from one to another then you will loose your rankings. You can change the Permalinks setting through Admin > Options > Permalinks.

WordPress has to option to use pretty links, turning the numbered links into sentences.


So instead of the default ugly permalink
Use the Pretty Link structure

http://example.com/?p=N


Use the Pretty Link structure

http://example.com/category_name/post-name
or
http://example.com/year/month/day/post-name

1) Configuring WP Permalinks- Weblog Tools Collection has a useful guide on setting up permalinks on your WordPress blog and how to set up a .htaccess file if you don’t have one.

2) Understanding WordPress Permalinks- Which Permalink Structure Is the Best?

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