Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual pages, blog posts, as well as your category and tag archives. A permalink is the web address that is used to link your wordpress site contents.
The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence the name permalink. Permalinks is simply mapping your domain name to your post, page, category as well as your tags.
When your decided to change your wordpress site post title without updating the permalink to the that post, you have two cases:
- The post title will be different from the post URL.
- When you click on post title or page title as the case may be, the post URL will be different from the post title or page title. Post URL:http://15.236.188.57/how-to-read-40-books-in-one-month/ while post title: How to Read 60 Books in One Month.
For example when you decide to change or slightly rephrase your ABOUT page to ABOUT US page without updating the permalink, when you or your blog audience click on your ABOUT US page it will display ABOUT US page while the page URL will be ABOUT page with its content.
Remember your post or page contents remain unchanged except you decided to change it.
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One of the problems that new user of wordpress site face is the problem of how to update their post permalinks after they decided to change or rephrase their post title.
Generally, in wordpress sites when you slightly change or slightly rephrase your post title or pages on your wordpress site without updating their respective permalinks, you will discover that your post title is not the same as the permalink which is the post URL.
You will observe this, when you look at your address bar on top of your web browser and and your post title on your wordpress sites.
For instance, when you slightly change your post title from how to read 40 books in one month, to How to Read 60 Books in one Month, when you click on it, the displayed post URL will be different from that post title.
For example that post will displayed How to Read 60 Books in one month with it contents. Remember the post or Pages contents doesn’t change except you decided to change it.
In fact, your post title must be the same as your permalinks(URL) with slight difference of dashes(-) in between the post title texts.
How to Solve the Problem of Post or Page Permalinks
- Firstly you have to log in your wordpress site back-end.
- Locate Posts in the left hand side of your wordpress site back-end.
- Hover your mouse on the left hand side of your wordpress site back-end.
- Click on all Posts and locate the particular the post your want to edit or update it’s permalink.
- Click on edit to open the post editor
- Click on document on the right hand side of your wordpress site back-end, rephrase the post title as you want.
- Locate permalink URL on the left hand side of your wordpress site back-end and delete every text there.
- Remember that post or page permalink URL should be the same as post title, the only diffrence is (- dash in between the text after your domain name with front slash).
- Click update.
