Permalink Custom Structure for WordPress Blogs

Next in setting up my blogs, I like to change the URL that WordPress uses to archive the posts.

Click on “Settings”

Click on “Permalinks”

You can see that from here you can change from the Default permalink structure to a customized one. As you click the radio buttons for the Common Settings you will notice the Custom Structure change.

For instance when you click: Day and name

the Custom Structure shows: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

I set up my Custom WordPress Permalink Structure to /%category%/%postname%/

I use the category and postname (or title of the post) for SEO (search engine optimization).

I just tested to see what would happen if you have two categories assigned to the post. The first category in alphabetical order will come up as the one used in the URL structure.