{"id":1035,"date":"2011-08-30T18:11:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2011\/08\/30\/setting-up-permalinks-on-your-wordpress-site\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:53:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:53:06","slug":"setting-up-permalinks-on-your-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/setting-up-permalinks-on-your-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up Permalinks on your WordPress Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Permalinks are permanent URLs to your individual posts and pages. Creating permanent links to your content can make it easier to share links and help <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/cpanel\/split-single-cpanel-account-into-multiple-accounts-using-ssh\/\">Search Engine Optimization<\/a> (SEO). There are multiple options on how to create the structure of permalinks such as date, article number, or another customized format. If you are troubleshooting a permalinks issue (such as a 404 error) we also have a full guide on <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/reset-permalinks-wordpress\/\">How to Reset WordPress Permalinks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Setting Up Permalinks<\/h2>\n<p>The default settings in WordPress, create links to new blog posts so your URL will resemble something similar to this: https:\/\/youdomain.com\/?p=123. You can change the URL that is automatically generated by modifying your settings in the Permalinks section of the WordPress dashboard. To change how WordPress generates links, first you will need to <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/logging-into-wordpress-dashboard\/\">log into your Dashboard<\/a>. Once logged in, under the \u201c<strong>settings<\/strong>\u201d in the left menu pane select \u201c<strong>Permalinks<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/wordpress-permalinks-1024x543.png\" alt=\"WordPress Permalinks\" class=\"wp-image-47870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/wordpress-permalinks-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/wordpress-permalinks-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/wordpress-permalinks-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/wordpress-permalinks.png 1674w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1360px) 876px, (min-width: 960px) calc(61.58vw + 51px), calc(100vw - 80px)\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>On the page above, you will notice the following options to change your link structure:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Plain<\/strong> \u2013 https:\/\/example.com\/?p=123<\/li>\n<li><strong>Day and Name <\/strong>\u2013 https:\/\/example.com\/2011\/04\/05\/sample-post\/<\/li>\n<li><strong>Month and Name<\/strong> \u2013 https:\/\/example.com\/2011\/04\/sample-post\/<\/li>\n<li><strong>Numeric<\/strong> \u2013 https:\/\/example.com\/archives\/123<\/li>\n<li><strong>Post Name<\/strong> \u2013 https:\/\/example.com\/sample-post\/<\/li>\n<li><strong>Custom Structure<\/strong> \u2013 This allows you to set up your URLs with your own structure, such as using the Topics as your category base.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you have selected the specific format you want, click \u201c<strong>Save Changes<\/strong>.\u201d There are some conflicts with Permalinks, so if you do change the format from the default setting, you may want to make sure that all your Plugins are still operating correctly.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permalinks are permanent URLs to your individual posts and pages. 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