When I started my blog am seeing all my posts appearing like http://www.techzoomin.com/?p=123 in browser URL area. Where as other blogs appearing in different styles like http://www.techzoomin.com/2008/09/18/sample-post/ and many other ways.

So I had a though to change my blog posts appearance to match others (I mean without that? p=123, because it looks ugly), But don’t know how to make that possible.

So here I got the solution now and wanted to share with you all.

First we just need to know what Permalink is:

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.

The following 5 options are the WordPress offering in settings.

The first option you are seeing is the Default one getting in your browser URL now. To change that one we have 3 more defined options called Day and name , Month and name , Numeric . The last one we have is Custom Structure where in you can give your own style of presentation for your posts in blog.

Customized structure options supported by Wordpress are:

You can use these tags to customize your Default Permalinks. 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.

1. %year% 

The year of the post, four digits, for example 2004

2. %monthnum% 

Month of the year, for example 05

3. %day% 

Day of the month, for example 28

4. %hour% 

Hour of the day, for example 15

5. %minute% 

Minute of the hour, for example 43

6. %second% 

Second of the minute, for example 33

7. %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 (see Using only %postname%)

8. %post_id% 

The unique ID # of the post, for example 423

9. %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.

10. %author% 

A sanitized version of the author name.

Even I read some where that these Permalinks will play major role in driving traffic to your site through search engines.So you know what next now, just make use of them and promote your blog to next level.

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