How to change url in WordPress

In this tutorial, I will show you how to change URL and set up your permanent URL throughout your WordPress website. You may be wondering why it makes any difference.

Let’s say you recently installed a brand-new WordPress on your server. Click on the first post “Hello World!”, this will bring you inside the hello world! post. The URL on the “Hello World!” would look like this http://your-domain.com/?p=1

Now what this is doing is identifying this post by its ID because it is the first post. When you look at the URL structure at the address bar, http://your-domain.com/?p=1 what this is doing is identifying this post by an ID.

This works fine for the server to know which content to be display but it doesn’t really give much description and identification as to what the actual content of that particular post. You may notice that on many other blogs have much more descriptions to their URLs.

WordPress lets you change that and I will go ahead showing you how to change your URL with your WordPress.

Step one

Login to your WordPress administration area http://your-domain.com/wp-admin

1. Click on Settings
2. Click on Permalinks

This will bring you to your Permalink Settings page. Under Common Settings check on Custom Structure and insert this /%postname%/

You also have the option to leave it as default, date and name, month and name, numeric, and custom structure. However, I like to use custom structure to pull the title from the posts or pages and put them in the URL for better search engines optimization.

You can even make it look like HTML pages by adding this under the Custom Structure: /%postname%.html

Once you have done that click on save changes.

Now all of your URL in your pages, posts, even your URL tags and URL categories become more descriptive instead of relying on the ID like http://your-domain.com/?p=1 now it is http://your-domain.com/hello-world.

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