Title: Which Permalink?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Which Permalink?

 *  [AA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alan-a/)
 * (@alan-a)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-permalink/)
 * Hi,
 * Will be transferring all posts from 2 blogs from Blogger to WP soon but need 
   to understand which permalink to use. I read the Codex but I am still a bit confused.
   My template designer said…
 * > BTW, I checked out your URL structure and the Options->Permalink structure 
   > you want is this”/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html”. Hopefully that will keep
   > your URL the same across the board.
 * I am not sure that I can get him to explain so could anyone here help me to understand
   his suggestion or offer me another one, if necessary? And, if I need to use my
   designers recommendation, do I tick one of the permalink options in the WP dash
   or would I need to enter “[http://www.mysite.com/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html&#8221](http://www.mysite.com/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html&#8221);
   in the custom field?
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 * Alan

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-permalink/#post-1067573)
 * in wordpress
    admin – settings – permalinks tick “custom” and enter this `/%year%/%
   monthnum%/%postname%.html` save
 *  Thread Starter [AA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alan-a/)
 * (@alan-a)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-permalink/#post-1067580)
 * Thanks samboll!
 * Would you mind explaining why so that I can understand a bit better? As they 
   say, it is better to teach a man to fish…well… you know the rest 🙂
 * Alan
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-permalink/#post-1067811)
 * better off looking at the codex
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 *  Thread Starter [AA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alan-a/)
 * (@alan-a)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-permalink/#post-1067859)
 * samboll,
 * Thanks…I read that yesterday. It made more sense today with a clear head 🙂 I
   do not, however, understand .htaccess & mod rewrite. Do I need to be concerned
   with them? FYI…. I am transfering posts from Blogger & trying to match the permalink
   structure so that I will not need a post url redirect from the Blogger postS 
   to the same posts in WP. Does it sound like I am doing the right thing?
 * Thanks, Alan
 *  Thread Starter [AA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alan-a/)
 * (@alan-a)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-permalink/#post-1067864)
 * PS – I tried making the permalink structure the same as Blogger’s but there is
   a problem. Blogger seems to leave out the word “the” in post titles, a possibly
   more words. For example…I have a post url in Blogger called “Sorry for the Lack
   of Posts” with the url of…
 * [http://www.happinesshelp.org/2009/05/sorry-for-lack-of-posts.html](http://www.happinesshelp.org/2009/05/sorry-for-lack-of-posts.html)
 * The url for the same title in WordPress is… [http://www.happinesshelp.org/2009/05/sorry-for-the-lack-of-posts.html](http://www.happinesshelp.org/2009/05/sorry-for-the-lack-of-posts.html)
 * I don’t know what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
 * Alan

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-permalink/#post-1067864)
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