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How Do I Change The Permalink In A Wordpress Blog Post?

by entrepreneurjay
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How Do I Change The Permalink In A Wordpress Blog Post? I have published a blog post and it is coming up as an error. I made a custom permalink now I do not see an option to change the permalinks settings back to the original? Anyone know an easy way to do this? Should be an easy fix....
#blog #change #permalink #post #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Look under Settings->Permalinks

    and select "Default" to change back to default settings.
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  • Profile picture of the author entrepreneurjay
    I just did that thanks UMS i figured it out its getting late lol.... Have a nice weekend everyone!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ian Jackson
      Just FYI, I find that often I can find out such things (WP "how-to" stuff for example) by doing a YouTube search - it's amazing what you can find sometimes!


      YouTube - Change The Permalink In A Wordpress Blog Post

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      • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
        Originally Posted by Ian Jackson View Post

        Just FYI, I find that often I can find out such things (WP "how-to" stuff for example) by doing a YouTube search - it's amazing what you can find sometimes!


        YouTube - Change The Permalink In A Wordpress Blog Post

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        ^^ what he said... plus, the basics BEFORE posting here: the thousand pages online manual for WP, the Codex:
        Main Page « WordPress Codex
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      • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
        Originally Posted by Ian Jackson View Post

        Just FYI, I find that often I can find out such things (WP "how-to" stuff for example) by doing a YouTube search - it's amazing what you can find sometimes!


        YouTube - Change The Permalink In A Wordpress Blog Post

        hth
        That's something I do constantly, especially with Photoshop. I've learnt how to do some pretty intricate stuff with YouTube searches
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        • Profile picture of the author troyy55
          This might be of interest to all (hello Peter, long time),

          The long standing SEO theory on permalinks might be in question...well, it's not in question with me anymore as I'm sure you will All understand the logic.

          This is a very important and often-ignored bit from the WordPress codex:

          For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields. The reason is that these are text fields, and using them at the beginning of your permalink structure it takes more time for WordPress to distinguish your Post URLs from Page URLs (which always use the text "page slug" as the URL), and to compensate, WordPress stores a lot of extra information in its database (so much that sites with lots of Pages have experienced difficulties). So, it is best to start your permalink structure with a numeric field, such as the year or post ID.


          So, starting with anything other than a number strand will produce a verbose page rule which will affect performance, especially if you have many pages on your site. And, after reading this, you might decide performance outranks SEO. Let your content do the work!

          Here are a couple of links that will explain it better than I could:

          http://wpmu.org/the-best-wordpress-permalink-structure-for-scaling-performance-and-seo/
          Category in Permalinks Considered Harmful » Otto on WordPress

          Now, changing your permalinks can be a messy problem too, leading to 404 pages, canceling indexed pages, and squashing your inbound links. Yeah, I know! But, just changing the custom structure is simple and changes site wide so don't fret. The challenges occur only when you change the perm in the post itself.

          Take a look at the whole page on permalinks in the WP Codex, as well as Otto's post to guide you.


          I see a change happening in SEO...

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    • Profile picture of the author WindowGang
      Originally Posted by entrepreneurjay View Post

      I just did that thanks UMS i figured it out its getting late lol.... Have a nice weekend everyone!
      If you change your link, and you have a significant amount of backlinks to that URL, your going to lose them unless you do a 301 Redirect from the old URL to the new one.
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  • Profile picture of the author Coby
    You should change your permalinks to SEO friendly by adding this to the custom structure area: "/%category%/%postname%/" without quotes of course.

    Also, the reason you were probably getting an error might be because the links weren't updated on the actual posts...

    Good Luck
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  • Profile picture of the author iuditg
    Setting-->Pemalinks--> Custom Structure and add there /%postname%/ and hit save
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim3
      Originally Posted by iuditg View Post

      Setting-->Pemalinks--> Custom Structure and add there /%postname%/ and hit save

      Whatever you do, DO NOT do this.

      This is erroneous misinformation, propagated my many "experts" it is incorrect, see Troyy55 above.

      Follow what Istvan has said, look at Wordpress Codex
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      • Profile picture of the author Bradley J Anderson
        Originally Posted by iuditg View Post

        Setting-->Permalinks--> Custom Structure and add there /%postname%/ and hit save
        Originally Posted by Tim3 View Post

        Whatever you do, DO NOT do this.

        This is erroneous misinformation, propagated my many "experts" it is incorrect, see Troyy55 above.

        Follow what Istvan has said, look at Wordpress Codex
        Well, it's not actually 'incorrect,' but it could slow down your blog's performance.

        According to the WP Codex:

        "... it is best to have at least two path segments in your post's permalink structure such as /%year%/%postname%/ or even /posts/%postname%/."
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        • Profile picture of the author Tim3
          Originally Posted by Brad armPitt View Post

          Well, it's not actually 'incorrect,' but it could slow down your blog's performance.

          According to the WP Codex:

          "... it is best to have at least two path segments in your post's permalink structure such as /%year%/%postname%/ or even /posts/%postname%/."

          Yes, you are quite correct Brad, I was trying to create some dramatic effect

          My hope is to stop people blindly following bad advice that is bandied about, by people who do not know any better, and seek only to increase their post count and break the cycle of misinformation that is created for the benefit of newcomers.
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