Create Custom Permalinks In Your WordPress Website With 5 Steps

Help out your overall search engine ranking result by applying SEO friendly tactics to your wordpress website. Apart from the major changes, even minor ones can play an essential part too- including your URL structure. Here’s how to create custom permalinks that are SEO friendly and easily sharable in 5 steps:

1. Basics

WordPress comes with SEO friendly URL structures for the user’s convenience. Known as Permalinks, all you have to do is look for settings and find the permalinks page to choose the URL structure you want. But bear in mind: Whenever you choose a permalink structure, that would affect ALL of your posts and pages, no matter new or old. So make sure to be careful if you change it. Custom permalinks should be what to use if you only want to apply them to some posts on your wordpress website- this doesn’t affect the rest.

2. Custom Permalinks for Post/Page

The simplest most straightforward method of creating custom permalinks is to make amendments to the slug part of your URL structure on the posts or pages of your wordpress websites. Take a look at your post editing screen and you’ll see the generated post’s URL right below the title of your content. There would be an edit button there. Upon selecting edit, you will be able to change the post slug to whatever you desire (limited to alphanumeric characters and also dashes).

3. Custom Permalinks for Categories/Tags

This can also be changed with little trouble. Locate the ‘Posts’ section, search for categories and your wordpress websites should display a list of categories you can choose from. Mouse over the categories and click on ‘quick edit link’. You will then be able to see the title of your selected category and the URL slug for it. You can make the relevant changes for the URL slug there and remember to update so that the changes are saved!

4. Change Permalink

When it comes to changing or creating a permalink that is completely customised, it’s important to remember that the changes you make will affect all of the URLs on your wordpress websites. This is how you can create or change custom permalinks without having it affect other URLs. Install this plug in called ‘Custom Permalinks’ to your wordpress websites and activate it. This way, you will be able to make the relevant changes safely.

5. Redirect custom permalinks

This section only applies for old posts (already published) since you won’t need to do this for new ones. Fortunately, this can be accomplished easily by installing the ‘Redirection’ plug in and activating it. Once you have done so, you can visit the tools section and select redirection. You will then be able to set up redirects, find 404 errors and correct them too.

With these 5 pointers in mind, you should be able to successfully create custom permalinks for your wordpress website. Go ahead and experiment with what you can change, test it out and see what best works for you! One recommended action would be to include a keyword in your custom permalink for SEO purposes.