Changing Permalinks for Pages

  • junkhed1

    (@junkhed1)


    16 years, 3 months ago

    Hi all back again with another ?… This is starting to become my home.. for my site , which I finally got up today http://www.randyniles.com I have some static pages such as personal, tour, contact and when you click on them they bring up in the url something to this effect http://www.randyniles.com/wordpress/?page_id=36

    What I would like to do is just have say http://www.randyniles.com/tour etc.
    Is this possible to do I’ve been reading about changing Permalinks in dashboard area of my administration panel but am not sure if this is possible to do for pages.. I also went to the Page menu and clicked on one of the pages, hit edit, and then clicked the change permalink button under the page title but it just brings me to the permalink area where it has Common Settings and Optional.. I’ve seen people with WP sites that have done this just not sure how to execute it.

    Thanks for any assistance provided.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    When you set up a custom permalink structure for Posts, it will automatically change your Page permalinks too. Just choose one of the common options such as Numeric for now.

    Thread Starter junkhed1

    (@junkhed1)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Hey esmi so should I not use the custom area and place this in
    /%category%/%postname%/ ? I’ve been reading articles all afternoon and kept seeing this pop up. Would this work for me? Should I be concerned that my urls show up http://www.randyniles.com/wordpress/?page_id=#

    is it possible not to show the wordpress part at all? I’m thinking this maybe going back to where I started changing the WordPress(URL) but I would probably have to move all the files to the root of the server right?
    Thanks once again for all your knowledge and assistance it is really appreciated..

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    /%category%/%postname%/ isn’t the best permalink structure in terms of future performance. /%post_id%/%postname%/ would be better (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)

    Would this work for me? Should I be concerned that my urls show up http://www.randyniles.com/wordpress/?page_id=#

    It’s not a major issue but human-readable urls tend to be more memorable and may give you slightly better SEO.

    is it possible not to show the wordpress part at all?

    Yes but that’s a bit more complicated. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

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