Permalinks for the Rank Beginner

  • Resolved peterandrew

    (@peterandrew)


    18 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve read the documentation on permalinks, but I’m at too basic a level to understand it. My question is: is there some way to have a permalink automatically inserted at the end of a post (I don’t care at this point if it’s “ugly”, just so long as I don’t have to do anything like altering some file that I don’t even understand)? If not, can someone tell me the MOST BASIC AND SIMPLEST way to add permalinks to my blog?
    Thanks for taking the time to answer a complete novice.
    Peter Andrew

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  • Your safest bet is to go into your Admin page, choose the “Options” tab, choose the “Permalinks” subtab and then choose one of the default permalink styles.

    Thread Starter peterandrew

    (@peterandrew)

    Yes, I’ve seen that, and I have the first default option checked. But now what do I have to do to include a permalink after each post? Is there some way to make the process automatic, or do I have to type sommething each time I want a permalink, and do I have to modify some file?

    The default behavior has the title of a post a link to the individual article. It will use whatever permalink style you have selected.

    Thread Starter peterandrew

    (@peterandrew)

    Please clarify: If I finish writing a new post, choose the categories for it and am ready to publish it, what exactly do I need to do to add a permalink before publishing it (whatever is simplest)?

    Nothing. You do NOT “add” permalinks.
    Permalinks are created ‘on the fly’. And just to clarify: whatever you have in the settings, eg. the default
    yourblog.com/?p=123 <== THIS IS a perma(nent)link to your post.

    What we are aiming here is the so-called nice permalinks, when instead of ?p=123 you will have “your-post-title-as-a-link”.

    But once again: you do not add anything. You set the “structure” of the desired nice permalink in your admin panel – and WP does the rest for all your blog.

    Your original question: Is there some way to have a permalink automatically inserted at the end of a post?

    And the answer to that would be:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/the_permalink

    That is the ‘template tag’ used in a WordPress theme template which will automatically display or output the permalink of a post.

    Thread Starter peterandrew

    (@peterandrew)

    OH, okay! Now I think I understand. I was expecting that after my post, after it says Posted in _____ / No Comments, that there was supposed to be the word “Permalink.” But now I see that when I put my cursor on the subject line, it says “Permalink to ______.” So I guess I’m using permalinks and didn’t know it. Thanks for all your help.

    ??
    Oh, I see what you were after. In most WP themes every posts title automatically is a/the permanent link to that post.

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