How to Set Permalinks in WordPress

Search Engine Optimisation is one of the best way to earn free traffic. And, Permalinks are one of the ranking factors of many popular search engines. Permalink is the structure of the URL that your content has. For example, https://example.com/example-content is a permalink. And the https://example.com/[content-slug-here] is a permalink structure.

It is important to have a permalink structure that is not so long and is easy to understand. If you are a WordPress user, you can set your permalink structure with hundreds of different possibilities. In this tutorial, I will show you how to set permalinks in WordPress. To perform this action, you do not need additional plugins. WordPress provides us a feature to update permalink structures directly from the admin panel.

Note: Before we get started with the tutorial, acknowledge that changing the permalink structure on a site with good search engine traffic might show some changes in traffic. It is because Google or other search engine has to remove your content with old URLs and index the content with new Permalink structure.

Finally, Let’s get started with the tutorial.

Set Permalinks in WordPress

Step 1: Log in to the admin panel of the WordPress site with your username and password.

Step 2: Click on the “Settings -> Permalinks” option from the left sidebar.

On this page, you will see a list of pre-defined permalink structures with an option to create a custom permalink structure.

Step 3: Click on the pre-defined or custom Permalink structure you would like to set for your content.

If you choose to select the custom permalink structure, You can create a permalink structure with the combination of the following.

• Year (%year%)
• Month Number (%monthnum%)
• Day (%day%)
• Hour (%hour%)
• Minute (%minute%)
• Second (%second%)
• Post ID (%post_id%)
• Post Name (%post_name%)
• Category (%category%)
• Author (%author%)

 

Step 4: Click on the “Save Changes” button given at the bottom of the page.

So, this is how you can set permalink structure in WordPress. We recommend you to set the permalink structure just after creating the WordPress website. It is because, once the site is indexed in search engines, It would be a mess to update Permalink structure.

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