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1. Anonymous
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   Posted 3 years ago #

   Just got wordpress a week ago and been fiddling about and decided to get a new theme, though that shouldn't matter, I have been looking at other blogs/sites with wordpress and notice directories like http://www.websitename.com/archieve and http://www.websitename.com/tutorial/tutorialname, I want that but whenever I make a category or post it comes out http://www.websitename.com/?p=1 or http://www.websitename.com/?cat=1. I want it to be the other way though, is this a plugin or a feature or what? It works the same way (?p=1) on the default theme to. Im using the latest version of wordpress.

   EDIT: Also http://www.website.com/?page_id=2 is my about page, yet on some sites their about page is linked to http://www.website.com/about, how do I get that!

   Thank you.

2. ApplianceJunk
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi,

   Try looking here.

   Admin>Settings>Permalinks

   I'm using Custom Structure: /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

   ApplianceJunk.com/blog

3. Anonymous
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   Posted 3 years ago #

   First, thank you :)
   Second, I want it to be category/post-name, so would I enter this in the Custom Structure field?:

   http://website.com/%category%/%post-name%/

   -OR-

   http://website.com/category/post-name/

   Or would I enter it in a different field, thank you :)

4. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Check out the Using_Permalinks page in the docs section :-)

5. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Read that and In the custom structure field I put /%category%/%postname%/, and I had to set my CHMOD for the wordpress directory to 777 (is that ok?). It now rewrites URL's the way I want BUT, how does it decide what the link is when I write a new post?

   Thank you so much for the help HandySolo and Appliance Junk!

6. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Check out:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#File_permissions

   In general, 777 would make me pucker a bit... try 755? (granted, I have no idea how your server is configured but 777 is scary).

   The link is determined on a new post via the post slug. You'll see it set just under the Post's title on the post editor screen.

7. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Seems to work with 755, thank you :) Now if only I can get this flickr thing to work hehe :P

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