Permalinks

I recently converted all my pages to WordPress, and decided to create a tutorial to help others who are planning to do the same. Permalinks allow you to change the look of your links when using WordPress pages for your website. Normally, the links are very ugly, they end up looking like this:
yoursite.com/?page_id=1

This tutorial will show you how you can personalize your links so they will be “pretty and nice” and look something like this instead:
yoursite.com/owner

Step 1: Finding Permalinks

Log into your WordPress account. Once you are in, scroll down to the bottom to Settings. The menu will now be showing, click on Permalinks.

Step 2: Customizing Your Links

Once you are there, you will see this: Choose Custom Structure and put /%category%/%postname% in the box beside and save.

Step 3: Finalizing The Change

Once you save, there should be an area at the bottom of the page and gives you a code that looks like this:

You will need to log into your FTP and find that paged called .htaccess and paste that code there. (Make sure it’s the .htaccess code on your main directory). You will notice that when you create a new page, you will no longer have ugly links! You can name them what ever you want.