Jun 17 2008
How to Change Permanent link
<--use our toolbarHow to Change Permenentlink in Wordpress without using Plugin
What is permanent link, anyway?
The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence permalink.
Comprehensive step by step
First come first.
After login into your wordpress admin (http://youdomain.com/wp-admin) goto
01. Option -> Permalinks
02. You will see option like below. Choose whichever you like or you can specify custom made.
AS sample above, I choose to custom made which i believe more simple and user friendly.
03. After you stasifiy with your choices click button
Then you will see following alert flashing at the top.
04. You nest job is to change or add some code on .htaccess file on your server. Basically .htaccess file located along with your index.php (same folder). Following diagram can found at bottom of the page. As stated you must copy all code given. The code then will paste/insert into .htaccess file.
To find and edit .htaccess file.
01. Login into your hosting and look for .htaccess file. Remember that your root directory is /public_html
02. Open and edit the .htaccess. Note: you can access your hosting/server using FTP Client, like what i do now.
03. How .htaccess look like?
Did you still remember the code on no. 4 above? You must copy it and insert at bottom line of .htaccess code. In this case line 30 or 31.
04. Insert the code provided as below diagram.
Don’t forget to save your work, otherwise it will no effect.
Viola, you are successful change your permanent link structure. No plugin required!
Check it out
Before
After
Now you understand what is this mean /%category%/%postname%/ - the more you add the longer the url
Right now you was success to change your permanent link. What happen to old link?How is my link love?
Don’t worry your link love still in old format but when someone click it, system automatically redirect to your correct post (which is now user friendly structured).
You may also want to read what icalvyn wrote about Change Permanent Link .
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great tips, I seen like did not change my htaccess file yet… going to update it right now…
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hi, icalvyn,
i think it ok now, i see your comment. thanks for contacting me via contact form
my hosting “do something” but it was fixed hopefully.
thanks for coming and droppin’ in my blog
Changing my permalinks is the top priority thing I always wanna do but I do not have the confidence to do it as I am afraid that my PageRank will be affected.
Do you think your above steps are safe? If it does, I don’t mind to give it a try. Thanks alot for this.
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hi bloggerOfTheWeb
PR is always what blogger care of. I”m not sure about losing pR after changing permanent links, but my experience was my PR still remain at PR2.
BTW after changing the permanent links structure, you can apply to google for reconsideration either to higher rank or previous rank (in case your rank was decrease)
I change my permanent link 1 week ago and see what happen next. I also apply to google for higher than PR2
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I have recently changed my wordpress permalinks from /press/archives/%post_id% to /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/.
…and my htacess is as follows…
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
My links still lead to 404s and I’m not sure what to do. I have tried plugins as well, but to no avail…
Think you could help me with this.
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hi michael monaghan,
from what i can see from your blog, it working perfectly with this format
/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
this one of my .htaccess, check it
—————————————–
AddType x-httpd-php .php .htm .html
< IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
< /IfModule>
# BEGIN WordPress
< IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
< /IfModule>
# END WordPress
—————————————-
as you can see there is two < IfModule mod_rewrite.c >
further reference, there is some issue as noted by http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks