In this week’s web design video blog, James does a quick video explaining WordPress Permalinks. WordPress is an ‘Open-Source’ blogging platform that is completely free, that web designers can install and operate on their own hosting.
In the video James looks at the difference between customised and default Permalinks and explains the many advantages of customising your Permalink structure.
The available Permalink variables
| %year% | The post’s year – for example 2010 |
| %monthnum% | The post’s moth – for example 01 |
| %day% | The post’s day of the month – for example 23 |
| %hour% | The hour that the post was published – for example 16 |
| %minute% | The minute that the post was published – for example 45 |
| %second% | The second that the post was published – for example 54 |
| %postname% | A sanitized version of the title of the post (This is customisable on the edit post page). |
| %post_id% | The post’s unique ID number, for example 324 |
| %category% | The post’s category name |
| %tag% | A sanitized version of the tag name |
| %author% | The post author’s sanitised name. |
As mentioned in the video, you may also wish to use the permalink structure that we use for our WordPress Blog. You can copy and paste the code below:
/%category%/%postname%.html
Related External Links
- Permalinks explained on the WordPress website
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
