Change the Post Permalink in WordPress
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Watch the slides and learn how to customize the WordPress Post Permalink to include the keyword from Squirrly SEO.
First make sure you have selected the custom permalink in Settings > Permalink
NOTE! All your old articles will change the link to permalinks
Then, make sure you add the right keyword in Squirrly Keyword field. Squirrly will tell you if the Keyword is present in the Post URL.
If not, make sure you check the post URL in order to include the keyword in it.
After you change the post URL just Update your post and you’re done.
Enjoy Squirrly!
9 Comments
Useful article.
I have to change all my links from default now. I didn’t know it’s so important to have the keyword in my article address URL.
Thanks
That’s nice
Glad to help you.
Hi.. I need some advice.. How to use playstore id as permalink.. is it possible to use ?
Are you referring at the post canonical link? If so, Squirrly does not have this feature yet and we are planning to add it his year.
Calin
Hi, your plugin is great, thank you. After I change the URL of my post, do I have to make a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one?
If you had the old URL active before WordPress is usually doing the redirect for you but it’s better to make sure by accessing the old URL and see if you need a redirect.
I edited a post after I replaced Yoast with your plugin and it changed my permalink without any prompting. I have links to this post and I can’t do a redirect for every old post!!
It took me a while and I finally got the parent category to show.
Now why I update and click “view post” from the admin page I get “oops that page can’t be found” error. HELP!
Squirrly SEO doesn’t change the post permalink. The Live Assistant only notifies you if the keyword is present in URL.
You should only change the URL when you create a new posts.
If you change the URL for an old post, you have to make sure you redirect the old permalink to the new permalink.