How to create 100% customized permalinks on your Wordpress Blog

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We all know that how you choose to structure your permalinks is crucial for SEO, but not many of us know exactly how to do this. Yes, we can set our permalinks to Custom and structure them as /%postname%/, but sometimes we need that extra bit of customization to get exactly what we want. And when it comes to Permalink customization, there is no plugin that does the job better than this:

WordPress › Custom Permalinks « WordPress Plugins

Just set your permalinks to Custom and voila, complete permalink freedom.

Works like a charm.

Brandon
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  • Profile picture of the author iresh
    Thank you for sharing, and some of those may not work with the next WP update also, but it better to try any way
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  • Profile picture of the author cnailor
    Have to agree, I don't use a plugin for this crucial piece of my rankings. Rather, I use the custom structure option provided by Wordpress and insert /%category%/%postname%/ -- if my niche site requires it, I will also change the default ccategory base to something like dept (for an ecommerce site) or topics (for a news site).
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    • Profile picture of the author Jack Sprat
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      A little trick for Wordpress Categories/Permalink. To make your Category URLs look like (cars is the Category):

      hxxp://www.domain.com/cars/really-fast-red-cars/

      Go to Settings/Permalinks/ in your WP-Admin.

      Then inside the Category base add a single period (see screenshot below)
      I tried this once and while the URL looked fine inside the browser URL pane (not sure what its called, when I checked the rel=canonical meta tag that Wordpress creates, the period was still there is the URL structure as in www.domain/./cars/really-fast-red-cars/

      Top Level Categories plugin will achieve the effect you are trying to achieve without funny stuff going on with the period.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        • Profile picture of the author Jack Sprat
          Thanks very much for the code Yukon. I'll look into this further in a week or so and see if I can work out if it was the default Wordpress canonical or the Platinum SEO plugin that was giving the URL's with the period.

          Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author kaytav
    Thanks everybody a great knowledge for m .

    Thanks
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