This step can be skipped, but for your users and SEO purposes you can make the http:// links a bit more readable for your visitors and increase the chance for you to be found in search engines.
So under Settings > Permalinks, you edit them. On this page you will see 5 options under Common Settings. Let’s start of with an example. Click on Month and name and see what happens.
You see this structure appear under Custom Structure:
/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
if you want your http:// link to resemble the page/post name you’ll have to put in
the following structure under Custom Structure:;
/%postname%/
your links will now appear like http://www.yoursite.com/contact etc.
If you save this and all goes well, you have your permalinks working. If you get an error that tells your .htaccess is not write-able you have to follow these steps.
- Copy past the given code from WordPress
- Open a text, edit program like, Notepad or TextEdit
- Paste the given code from WordPress in the text file
- Save it and it doesn’t matter if it’s saved as .txt extension
- Upload the text file into the root directory where you’ve installed WordPress
- Then rename it to .htaccess
- When you rename it don’t put any .txt/.doc extension etc. behind it
- Reload your admin panel, you should be up and running now
NOTE: If you still get an error follow the last steps because some extra code
maybe in you .htaccess that will make WordPress not read it properly.
- Go to your ftp and locate the .htaccess [it may not be visible since it’s a hidden file.
- In this case go to your preferences of your ftp and set show hidden files].
- Now you should be able to see the .htaccess file.
- Click it and choose edit with Notepad, TextEdit or Dreamweaver etc.
- Select all the code and delete it, then copy past the code from WordPress
that still is in your computers memory. - Save the file and you see a prompt of your ftp program saying uploaded
successfully - Go and reload your admin panel and your site should be back and running
with permalinks
