#wordpress permalinks

Change Permalinks within Yoast

Permalinks: Changing to ‘Post name’

Somehow when we started the blog the year and month was always published in front of the post title ‘very annoying’ and if you changed the permalinks to what you wanted it broke the site so up until recently I managed to change them without breaking the site YIPPEE!

I found out about changing the permalinks in the .htaccess folder instead of just adding 301…

How To Configure WordPress Permalinks For Better SEO Results

Wouldn’t it be great if after publishing new content on your WordPress site, the following took place … all from your URL:

Site visitors could quickly gain an understanding of what the post is about,

Search engines would discover your pages faster,

Every piece of content you create on your website would have a unique ID, making your site easier to manage.

Well, this is what WordPress permalinksl…

There are many ways to set custom urls on wordpress , i have been trying to figure this out when using Wamp server. Here are a few simple steps:

Locate your apache httpd.conf file which would most probably reside under C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf

Edit using text editor and uncomment(remove # sign) the line  LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

In the same file locate Options FollowSymlinks and change the second line from  "AllowOverride none" to "AllowOverride all" if not already done

Save the file and restart all services under Wamp

Go to wordpress admin -> Settings -> Permalinks and choose your custom structure, like "postname"  http://localhost/wordpress-3.3/wordpress/sample-post/