How to Set Up Permalinks On WordPress

[FredPeters]

If you are interested in setting up permalinks on a self-hosted WordPress blog, I have written a new pictorial article describing the process and the options. If you have not set up permalinks on your blog, I highly recommend that you do.

[rhyswynne]

I quite agree. Permalinks look more attractive and are more SEO Friendly than ?p=3423. Plus I believe it's more secure.

[Pinyo]

It's in your admin panel.

Options --> Permalinks.

I use custom structure: /%post_id%/%postname%/

Your host has to support .htaccess file.

[solidghost]

Apache only.

[Bloggeries]

Supposedly the closer you put the title to the domain the better.

Therefor

http://www.mydomain.com/something/so...omething/title

isn't as effective as

www.mydomain/something/title or just /title.

[FredPeters]

That is why I just use /%postname%/

[solidghost]

Could be a problem if you have two exact postname.

[FredPeters]

That is a very good point. Thanks for the warning.

[Bloggeries]

Agreed that's why I try and put /month/ or whatnot in as well just so it's not EXACT.

Originally Posted by solidghost

Could be a problem if you have two exact postname.

[PaulR]

I also use just postname and have found this plugin to be very useful, if it finds a duplicate permalink structure it will ad a number to the end of the newly published post while leaving the title alone.

What the correct permalink structure should be is very debatable, everybody says that postname is the best (mine is postname) and people will point to the fact that Matt Cutts uses just postname.

But over the years i have run into some plugin compatibility issues using postname as my permalink structure, and if you want to silo then your permalink structure would need to be expanded. Also it's believed that the algo for google news looks for urls with at least 6 numbers in it thats where having the date would be a big plus.

I guess it all depends on what you want to do with your blog.

Best of luck