{"id":859,"date":"2016-09-15T12:35:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pair.com\/support\/kb\/?p=859"},"modified":"2021-09-14T12:41:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T16:41:30","slug":"permalinks","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.pair.com\/support\/kb\/permalinks\/","title":{"rendered":"What are WordPress Permalinks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a style=\"color:#fff; text-decoration:none!important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pair.com\/support\/kb\/tags\/wp-enthusiast\/\"><p class=\"\"style=\"background-color:#1a3d6e!important;color:#fff !important;padding:6px; display:inline-block!important;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold; border-radius:3px;\">WP Enthusiast<\/p><\/a> <a style=\"color:#fff; text-decoration:none!important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pair.com\/support\/kb\/tags\/wp-professional\/\"><p style=\"background-color:#1a3d6e !important;color:#fff !important;padding:6px; display:inline-block!important;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold; border-radius:3px;\">WP Professional<\/p><\/a> <a style=\"color:#fff; text-decoration:none!important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pair.com\/support\/kb\/tags\/wp-professional-plus\/\"><p style=\"background-color:#1a3d6e !important;color:#fff !important;padding:6px; display:inline-block!important;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold; border-radius:3px;\">WP Professional Plus<\/p><\/a> <a style=\"color:#fff; text-decoration:none!important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pair.com\/support\/kb\/tags\/pairsim-wordpress\/\"><p style=\"background-color:#1a3d6e !important;color:#fff !important;padding:6px; display:inline-block!important;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold; border-radius:3px;\">PairSIM WordPress<\/p><\/a> <a style=\"color:#fff; text-decoration:none!important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pair.com\/support\/kb\/tags\/podcast-websites\/\"><p style=\"background-color:#1a3d6e !important;color:#fff !important;padding:6px; display:inline-block!important;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold; border-radius:3px;\">Podcast Websites<\/p><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A permalink is a stable human-readable and search engine-friendly link to your article.<\/p>\n<h3>WordPress URL Structure<\/h3>\n<p>The default URL structure of WordPress is to append, for example, \"\/?p=123\" to the end of the URL to view article 123. This URL is nice and short, but is difficult for visitors and search engines because it\u00a0doesn't give any information about the post's content.<\/p>\n<h3>Changing Your URL Structure<\/h3>\n<p>Visit the permalink settings interface by clicking on <strong>Settings<\/strong> and then <strong>Permalinks<\/strong> in the WordPress admin panel.<\/p>\n    \t\t<div class=\"hts-messages hts-messages--danger   hts-messages--withicon \"   >\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\t<p>\r\n    \t\t\t\t\tIt is not recommended that you change your permalink structure\u00a0after you have already established your site and audience. Other people may have bookmarked pages on your site or other blogs and articles may have links to your site. 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