Permalinks

 

Each WordPress blog post is assigned its own Web page, and the address

(or URL) of that page is called a permalink. Posts that you see in WordPress blogs usually have the post permalink in four typical areas:

✦ The title of the blog post
✦ The Comments link below the post
✦ A Permalink link that appears (in most themes) below the post ✦ The titles of posts appearing in a Recent Posts sidebar
Permalinks are meant to be permanent links to your blog posts (which is where the perma part of that word comes from, in case you’re wondering). Other bloggers can use a post permalink to refer to that particular blog post. Ideally, the permalink of a post never changes. WordPress creates the permalink automatically when you publish a new post.

By default, a blog post permalink in WordPress looks like this:

http://yourdomain.com/?p=100/

The p stands for post, and 100 is the ID assigned to the individual post. You can leave the permalinks in this format, if you don’t mind letting WordPress associate each post with an ID number.
WordPress, however, lets you take your permalinks to the beauty salon for a bit of makeover so that you can create pretty permalinks. You probably didn’t know that permalinks could be pretty, did you?