Customizing the URL (permalink) of your WordPress pages and posts can enhance SEO, improve user experience, and align links with your branding.
Changing permalinks is straightforward and allows you to create cleaner, more descriptive URLs.
This article will guide you through the steps to modify the URLs of your WordPress pages and posts, ensuring your links are optimized for search engines and easy for users to navigate.
Set WordPress to use pretty permalinks
WordPress will use plain permalinks out of the box. That means any post or page will display their respective IDs.
An example can be seen in the screenshot below:
To change the default permalink structure, follow these steps:
Go to WordPress Dashboard → Settings → Permalinks
Select Post Name
Click Save
Change the URL(permalink) of a page/post
Go to WordPress Dashboard → Pages → All Pages.
To change the permalink of a page, select the Edit option for that page.
Using the Right Sidebar, click on the URL option:
Change the Permalink value to the new value
Click on the Update button.
Pro Tip: The same process can be used for Posts/Products/Projects.
Bonus: Using the WordPress Quick Edit functionality to change the Post/Page permalink quickly
Go to Dashboard → Pages → All Pages.
Hover on the page for which you want to change the Permalinks
Click on the Quick Edit option.
Change the Slug and click on the Update button.
Note: Post/Page slugs cannot contain spaces. If a space is being used in the Slug, WordPress will automatically convert that to a dash (-).