Do you want to customize the permalinks for your WordPress posts, pages, and other post types? We’ve had users reach out to us wanting to customize this safely without breaking their links. In this video, we’ll show you how to create custom permalinks in WordPress without affecting your SEO.
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At the end of the video, we will show you how to create redirects but for sites with a visitor base, we would recommend caution before changing permalinks. For your standard permalinks, you can go under Settings, Permalinks and modify the permalink structure there. We normally recommend the post name structure for most sites.
Below the standard permalinks, there is the option to change the category and tag base. This would mean rather than your site/category/name it would be what you set here replacing category in the URL.
For individual posts or pages, with the block editor, you would go next to the title for modifying or in the document settings under permalink. This will allow you to change the final part of the permalink with the post’s name only to let you make it the correct name that you are wanting.
For changing a category you would go under Posts, Categories, and click the edit link beneath the category name you want to modify. You will both have the option to change the name you see on the back end of your site as well as the slug which is what is added in the URL.
For editing the author slug we would recommend using the Edit Author Slug plugin found here:
With that active, you can go under Users, All Users and edit the user who’s slug you want to modify. For the permalink for authors in general if you wanted to change that then you would want to go under Settings, Edit Author Slug.
For even greater control over your permalinks, we would recommend the Custom Permalinks plugin found here:
With the plugin activated you can edit the post you want and scroll down to find the custom permalink editor below. This will give you the power to make this specific content have any permalink you want. You can also visit the categories themselves to customize it there.
With the permalinks changed this can cause 404 errors when trying to visit their old links which is a greater problem for already set up sites. To solve this we will be using the Redirection plugin found here:
this will allow you to redirect the posts from their old locations to your new custom permalink.
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help me out please my main url is indexed in google like >> example.com/author/john >>>> i don't want that i want simple >>> how to fix I check everything >> like I am using generate press theme and even permalinks are simple post any solution ???
can we add a category in WordPress business website pages instead of post?
Hello! Links on product catalogs are not allowed
Awesome! great
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Thanks
Thanks for the good work.
Can you please talk about capitals in the permalinks
Hello. Do you know how I can change my shop page so that it is my new home page? Thank you for your time
How can I change my page url structure by adding (.html) at the end?
I am noticing a difference at 1:10
<YOURS> POST NAME https://startawpsite.com/sample-post/
< MY > POST NAME http://startawpsite.com/sample-post/
I am unable to place the letter S after the http as that block is grey and unchangeable.
Thank yo for reading. Also I hope to your viewer's they find your reply helpful.
I purchased a domain and am using wordpress.org I just noticed that at the top my url is now completely different then what it was and I don't know how to fix it. Have you heard of that happening?
Thanks for this! What I really need now. Ugh
thankyou so so soooo much ,I was sad whole day after change permalink setting. your video helped me.
Hello. I am using wordpress.org and I can change overall permalinks but I do not see an option to change it for individual posts. Do you know why that would be? I've tried in classic and block editors.
Hey I can not find the permalink option please help me
Really good and clear content!
You saved me from stress. Many Thanks
If I own multiple different domains, how do I get the domains to go to separate pages of my main website? Like if I search one of my domains, instead of it taking me to the front page of my main website it takes me to a specific page of my website?
I want to remove product category from the url..for example http://www.myweb.com/neu/led_bulb instead of..http://www.mywev.com/neu/product-categories/led_bulb
Reply asap
So Squarespace post links have http://www.websiteurl/blogs/postname. How do we have the same permalink structure in WP?
Thaks a lot! Miss, You're the best!
If I change a permalink on a page, do I also need to update the button that I have on my homepage which is linked to that page?
Say I have an established WP blog where all the post urls have the date in them. I know how to change the urls so they only show the post title in the url. I go to settings, permalinks and change it. However after doing that I will have lost all the links and seo I had developed with the old permalinks that had the date in them. Say there are over 100 posts. You really didn't explain how to universally redirect all those old post urls (containing dates) to the news urls (containing only post title) without suffering any link and/or seo damage. Will the "redirect" plugin you mentioned accomplish this? Do I have to change the css code or other code? Is there a simple way to do this?
Awesome dear 🤗🤗🙏🙏
How would you apply this after migration from blogger? Since blogger permalinks have year/month structure in them.
Thanks!
i can't found menu "permalink" in my wordpress :(.. why?
Are these URLs absolute or relative? If you were to migrate/restore to a new site location would these change with the migration?
i wish i was slightly more advanced in this to take advantage of you excellent teaching. however when you flew by the part with all the %hge% signs and not explain specifically what they are for. so where can i find something rudimentary for slow people like myself who just learned what a permalink was. i will subscribe.
Thanks , Let's say I had an old site with a link like /foldername/test.html Now moving to new site but want to preserve only that particular URL for on page only I tried to change the permanent link of one page but it does not accept test.html it only accepts test.html/ as a folder . Any way to do this?