Wordpress Post Slugs and Permalinks

Wordpress Post Slugs and Permalinks by benz

A Post Slug is a permalink. Permalink stands for permanent link which points directly to a URL of a particular post. And we want the link of that particular post to be logical and easily track back. Example, if my post title is about ‘global warming issue‘. The default permalink will be ‘http://blog.theknuts.com/?p=123‘ and that cannot be easily identify. But we can define the post slug into ‘http://blog.theknuts.com/global-warming-issue‘, which can be easily understood. Wordpress will automatically truncate the link title white spaces with (-) hyphen.

Wordpress self-hosted has options for defining slugs which is not available for wordpress.com. You can find them under Posts: Post tags and Categories, and under Links: Link Categories. You can also define Permalinks under Settings options. Setting >> Permalinks

Under common settings, I select the month and name of the post. That will depend on your preference. Hmm… I think in wordpress.com the automatic or default settings now for permalinks is with the month and name of post.