Being new to wordpress is quite an exciting venture. I’ve been used to blogger.com and admittedly it is easier than wordpress. Blogger.com is a great free hosted blog publishing platform. I’m used to dragging and dropping widgets in blogger and it is convenient for me as a beginner. But still I’m looking for something that blogger could not offer me. I want to have more control on my blogs. So I tried WordPress which is the most widely used blogging and Content Management System (CMS) platform. But in wordpress you need to host your blog/ website to a third party hosting which means you need to shell out extra bucks to set up wordpress. But don’t stumble yet, fortunately there are numerous hosting websites that offers a free web hosting like www.000webhost.com, Yes it’s for free. and for your domain you can also get it for free at www.co.cc.
So setting up Permalinks to wordpress.
Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence permalink. – from
www.wordpress.org
It is quite easy to
set up permalinks in wordpress and this is what I mean of being in full control of your blog. Permalinks are classified into two, the ugly and the pretty permalinks. The default wordpress permalink which is the “
http://junnjunmendoza.co.cc/?p=123″ is the ugly permalink. That’s why you need to turn it into a pretty one. First go to settings and click on Permalinks. Then you have the choices what your permalinks should look like it is fully customizable. But youcan’t just play with it as you need to consider the SEO thing. After browing through the web I found a great article about permalinks. I used “
/%postname%.html” for my permalinks to be shortened, the complete explanations can be read
here. Place the /%postname%.html in the Custom Structure text box and click save. You will then be prompted to modify your .htaccess file because it’s permission is currently not writtable. Check on your public_html directory if you have the .htaccess and if not create one. Create a new text file (notepad) and paste on it the codes below the “Save Changes” button on your permalink settings page. Save the file as htaccess.txt and upload it to your public_html directory using an FTP client, in my case I used
Filezilla. After uploading it find that file and change it’s permissions to “666″. Then rename the file to “.htaccess”. There you have it, you got a brand new pretty permalink that is SEO optimized. Cheers!
