WordPress Permalink Setup

we have successfully installed our WordPress website and now we need to setup wordpress permalink for clean and better SEO for your website.

Let us see how to create a WordPress permalink with 3 simple clicks.

WordPress Permalink
WordPress Permalink

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WordPress Permalink Setup

  1. Login to your WordPress admin dashboard.
  2. Select Settings from left sidebar options.
  3. Click on Permalinks, it will open a new page with permalink settings
  4. From Permalink settings, select Post name
  5. Save the settings at the bottom of the screen.
Save WordPress Permalink setup
WordPress Permalink Save Settings

You have various other options, such as

plain ID,

Blogger like structure with Date and post name,

Month and Name of the article

Achieves with numeric Id

You can also use custom structure by clicking the available tags as shown in below picture.

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Tags in Custom Structure of Permalinks in WordPress

Category Base and Tag Base in the WordPress URL

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Category base and tag base in WordPress links

Another optional feature is, changing of your category name and Tag Name. Let us take an example to change Category to cooking as shown in the above image.

It is recommended, not to touch this feature unless you really required it.

by default the category base is

https://geekchalk.com/category/how-to-guides/

it will be changed to

https://geekchalk.com/tech/how-to-guides/

If your site is covering multiple areas, better to leave this with default options and Click on save.

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