How to beautify your WordPress URL

by drizad on June 17, 2007

I’ve found a way to beautify our WordPress URL from this:

http://www.mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/2007/03/02/this-is-the-title/

or even this:

http://www.mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/2007/03/02/?p=12345

to this:

http://www.mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/this-is-the-title.html

Why?

Make your URL more visitor friendly and more ‘natural looking’.
Search engine optimized.

What do you need?

A WordPress plugin, Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin by fucoder.com.
Make sure your .htaccess on your root directory is writable.

How?

Download the php or zip file from fucoder.com.
Upload `ylsy_permalink_redirect.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Select Option>Permalink and change your present permalink to custom: /%postname%.html
Save and select Permalink Redirect to manage your new URL.
Put your old permalink structure e.g. mine was /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
If you have Feedburner, put the link inside also.
Tick ‘Hostname Redirect’. It will make sure that your old permalink do not show “Error Page 404″ to your visitors.

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{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Jimmy 06.24.07 at 7:08 pm: how to do a normal permalink?
2 drizad 06.24.07 at 8:09 pm: Normal permalink? Do you mean trackback? It would be:
http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/how-to-beautify-your-wordpress-url.html/trackback/
3 Jimmy 06.24.07 at 8:15 pm: if you go to my site..you can see my article title is tag by no. how can i do as below withought using widget
http://www.mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/2007/03/02/?p=12345

to this:

http://www.mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/this-is-the-title.html
4 drizad 06.24.07 at 8:25 pm: Oh, try to go to Options>Permalink from your Admin interface. you should see the “Customize Permalink Structure”.

Change from the existing permalink (i.e. by default it’s numbers for your link) to “Custom, specify below”.

Put /%postname%.html

Is it working?

You still need to download the “Permalink Redirect” plugin (not widget), and activate it. Otherwise, your old link will end up on 404 page.
5 coffee machine 03.21.10 at 2:15 am: Good day from Italy! May i quote a post within your blog with the link to you? I’ve tried contacting you regarding this problem however it seems i cant reach you, please reply when get a time, thanks.

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