Choosing your permalink structure
In the Settings → Permalinks panel, you can choose one of the more common permalink structures or enter your own in the “Custom structure” field using the structure tags.
Please note: You do not put your site url in the permalinks fields. You only use one of the structure tags, or a combination of tags.
To activate PATHINFO permalinks, start your permalink structure with index.php/.
Structure Tags
Please note: You do not put your site url in the permalinks fields. You only use one of the structure tags, or a combination of tags.
You can use these tags to customize your “Pretty” or “Almost Pretty” permalinks. A few hints:
- Make sure to end your structure with either %post_id% or %postname% (e.g. /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/) so that each permalink points to an individual post.
- %year%
- The year of the post, four digits, for example 2004
- %monthnum%
- Month of the year, for example 05
- %day%
- Day of the month, for example 28
- %hour%
- Hour of the day, for example 15
- %minute%
- Minute of the hour, for example 43
- %second%
- Second of the minute, for example 33
- %post_id%
- The unique ID # of the post, for example 423
- %postname%
- A sanitized version of the title of the post (post slug field on Edit Post/Page panel). So “This Is A Great Post!” becomes this-is-a-great-post in the URI.
- %category%
- A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI.
- %author%
- A sanitized version of the author name.
Category base and Tag base
The Category base and Tag base are prefixes used in URLs for category and tag archives, which look like this:
example.net/wp/category_base/category_name example.net/wp/tag_base/tag_name
The default values for these are category and tag. You can change them, but you can’t remove them from the URLs altogether.
Custom permalinks work on most systems without any problems, but there are still some conditions where problems occur.
Using %category% with multiple categories on a post
When you assign multiple categories to a post, only one can show up in the permalink. The categories are ordered alphabetically. In each group of sub-categories the order will also be alphabetical. (see Manage Categories). The post will still be accessible through all the categories as normal.
Try the WP Category Permalink plugin if you want to choose which category shows up in the permalink.
