Hi,
Do you mean Settings – Permalinks? These will change your urls for all posts – already existing too. Old urls will get error 404, so if your site is not new and you don’t want to lose traffic you have to redirect old urls then.
Btw. it does not mean folder, its just virtual path.
Thanks for the insight. Yes, I did mean Settings>Permalinks. I understand, they LOOK like folders but it is just a route to the post.
My site is already clobbered because I allowed someone to design me a new template. When they did it they also changed the Permalinks setting, unbeknownst to me, resulting in broken incoming links all over.
I am now restoring the site with a new template. I am hoping that by reverting to the Permalinks convention in place before this all began, some of these old incoming links may work again.
If you set up that settings the same way how before, all links for category and posts will become like before.
The Permalinks this guy created are quite long, like http://GoldSmart.ca/knowledge/knowledge-base/%category%/%post%
I notice that the Permalinks offered by WordPress tend to be quite short. Do spiders have difficulty crawling long Permalinks like that?
Its not huge problem to use long urls, anyway it looks much better for visitors if these are short. Keep it short and clean if you can.
I use us post-name (/%postname%/)
Thanks. You have given me lots to think about!
