Lesson 1, Topic 1
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Permalink Settings

Permalink Settings: These settings allow you to configure the URL structure for your posts, pages, and other content on your site. Permalinks are permanent URLs to your individual blog posts, as well as categories and other lists of blog postings. A well-structured permalink makes it easier for search engines to understand the content of your page and can improve your search rankings. It also provides a clean and readable URL that is easier for users to remember and share. 

  • Common Settings: Choose the basic format for your URLs. The structure you choose here will affect all the links to your posts and pages. 
    • Plain: This setting uses query strings instead of human-readable text and is not recommended for SEO.  
    • Day and name: Includes the date and the post name in the URL.  
    • Month and name: Similar to the day and name format, but without the day. This format, along with Day and name, is useful for news sites or blogs where the date of the post is important. However, Day and name and Month and name can make URLs longer and more complex. 
    • Numeric: Uses the post ID in the URL. Not recommended for SEO. 
    • Post name: Uses only the post name in the URL. This is often considered the best structure for most websites as it is clean, concise, and highly relevant to the content of the post. It helps with SEO because it includes keywords from the post title. 
    • Custom Structure: Allows you to create a custom URL structure using available tags, which includes author and category, along with date and post name tags used by other permalink structures.
  • Optional: Set the base URL for categories and tags. 
    • Category base: Set a custom base for your category URLs. If left blank, WordPress will use the default /category/ base for categories permalinks. For example, the permalink for the category dogs would be https://the-perfect-pet.com/category/dogs by default, or https://the-perfect-pet.com/topics/dogs if the category base were changed to topics. 
    • Tag base: Set a custom base for your tag URLs. If left blank, WordPress will use the default /tag/ base for tags permalinks.