How To Create A Pretty URL For Wordpress

When you install your Wordpress site, the default URL's are quite ugly and are not really any good for your overall site optimization, (If your not sure what a URL is you can read my post titled "What Is A URL?".) For example, the default URL's look something like this, http://www.globalevangelists.com/?p=123 Take a look at the end of the URL, Notice the "/?p=123", Everything after the trailing "/"  is the title of your category, page or post. Leaving your site set up with the default URL settings has a a few disadvantages that you may want to address.

1. Your site is not set up for search engine optimization.
2. You make it harder for your visitors to find or recognize specific web pages.
3. and It makes it harder for you to manage your pages.

Changing the way your URL's look is simply a matter of changing your permalinks within the settings section of your Wordpress site. To change the permalinks all you do is log into your Wordpress admin area. Once your logged in, look to the left of your administrators dashboard and look under the "Settings" tab and look for "Permalinks". Click on the "Permalinks" link. The next screen you will see is something similar to the screenshot below. [...]

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