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This video I'm going to show you how you
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can change your link structure on your
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WordPress website. So if you want your
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links maybe to begin with your headings
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or maybe to begin with a date or you
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want just to customize them to your own
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style, I'll show you how you can do it
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on your website. If you find this video
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helpful, I'll kindly request that you
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support me by liking the video and also
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by subscribing to my channel. All right,
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let's get to it. Now here I'm logged
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into my WordPress website and to change
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the link structure just head over to
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settings here and from settings choose
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this option called permal links. Now if
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you select permal links this will show
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you various forms of links that you can
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choose for you to be able to customize
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your links. As you can see all your
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links will follow this structure your
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website URL and then followed by the
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structure you want to adapt. For
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instance, we have here the first link
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structure. We have plain day and name.
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That is if you want your link to follow
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this structure where it will first
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display your URL and then the day of the
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post and then the sample post, you can
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choose that. If you want it to be plain,
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you can also choose this first one where
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it will just adapt this format. We also
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have this month and name. That is if you
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want the month and the name of the post
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to be included in your link. Also you
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can choose numeric where your posts or
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your links will be numbered according to
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this numerical structure. Now by default
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it is usually set to post name. This is
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the default structure that most or all
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WordPress permal links are structured in
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where your URL is accompanied by the
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title of your post. So this is the
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commonly used link structure in
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WordPress. However, you can as well
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customize your link structure to follow
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a particular order or particular format
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by introducing your own structure. For
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instance, here you will have to go ahead
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and maybe choose the post name or any
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other tag that you want to be
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accompanied on your links in WordPress.
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And some of the available tags that you
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can include is maybe year, months, day,
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hour, minute, second post ID, post name
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as well as category and lastly the
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author. Once you are done now, you can
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go ahead and click on save changes. Once
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you select your permal link structure,
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however, the warning is you have to
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choose this as early as possible before
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you start publishing or before you have
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a considerable number of posts on your
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WordPress website because by changing
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your per links, this might result into a
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404 error on other posts that you had
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already published. So, it is important
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to set this link structure as early as
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possible on your website. So that's how
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you can change your link structure on
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WordPress. If this video is helpful to
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you, kindly let me know in the comment
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section. Otherwise, thanks for watching
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and let's meet in the next video.
