Blogging

A permanent static hyperlink of a web page is called permalink. Generally, it’s a link of your blog post. Permalinks are the permanent URL’s of individual posts, pages, categories and tags of your blog.

URL of the individual post will never change and should be permanent, that’s why it’s called permalink.

By default, WordPress uses post id, question marks and numbers in permalinks. However, WordPress provides the ability to use custom URL structure to improve the SEO.

How to set Permalinks in WordPress:

WordPress allows you to set up SEO friendly permalink structure.

Login to your WordPress dashboard and go to settings >> Permalinks and select the permalink structure of various choices.

Default:  www.royalecash.com/?p=123

Day and name: www.royalecash.com/2018/12/01/sample-post/

Month and name: www.royalecash.com/12/01/sample-post/

Numeric: www.royalecash.com/archives/123

Post name: www.royalecash.com/sample-post/

Custom structure: specify your desired custom structure in the box from available tags.

You can also create custom permalink structure for categories and tags for your blog in the optional screen.

Optional:

Category base: Add your custom prefix for your category URL’s.

Tag base: Add your custom prefix for your Tag URL’s.

If you leave this blank, default WordPress URL structure will be used for Categories and tags.
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The Page is a regularly used word in WordPress. In this post, will check what is a page and How to create a page in Wordpress?

Page in WordPress:

Pages are timeless content. They don’t have published date and author. Pages meant to be static means information updated on the page doesn’t change often. Pages are hierarchical in nature. You can add subpages to your pages. This helps to group related pages together. Pages are meant for permanent information like “About”, “Contact” and “Disclaimer” pages.

You cannot assign categories and tags for the pages unless you use plugin or code to add categories and tags for WordPress pages. You cannot style your content using post formats but you can use page templates. This allows developers to customize the look for pages like “Archive” and “Landing pages”.

Pages are not displayed in the RSS Feed of your blog. Pages are not meant for conversation and social. In most of the cases, pages not include comments and social sharing buttons.

You can create pages as much as you want there is no limit on how many you create. Even though pages are static, that doesn’t mean you can’t update them. Pages can be updated as often you want. You can also create a website only with pages. Pages don’t appear in the blog section of a website.

A specific page can be assigned as a front page or main page of your website. You can create a custom homepage for your blog to make it fully functioned website.

How to create a Page in WordPress?

After Login to your WordPress dashboard, we have two options to create a new page in WordPress websites.

• Go to “Pages” in WordPress dashboard and click on “Add New” option to create the new post.

• Click on the +New button and click on a page.

Whichever option you choose the result will be the same and one blank page will be opened.
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WordPress Multisite is a regularly used term in WordPress Glossary which allows a user to create a “Network of sites” with a single WordPress installation. Check this article to know about what Is WordPress Multisite and How Does It Works?

What Is WordPress Multisite?

Multisite is a feature in WordPress which allows users to create a “Network of sites” with a single WordPress installation.

How Does WordPress Multisite Works?

If you require more than one WordPress website, managing and branding them all can be a lot of work. Its more way easier if you interconnect all websites and manage them all from one place.

WordPress Multisite allows users to create a Network of sites that are separated on the front end and interconnected on the back end.

Although all sites share the same WordPress installation, they don’t have their own directories on the server but they have separate directories for media uploads within the shared installation. Each site shares the same database with its own set of tables.

By setting up WordPress Multisite, you can create an entire network of sites and manage them all from one place as a super admin. Super admin has access to all primary website, subsites and network area of the website.

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Navigation menus is a regularly used term in WordPress Glossary which allows a user to create custom menus in WordPress to display WordPress posts, pages and custom links. Check this article to know about Navigation menus in WordPress and uses of Navigation menus in WordPress?

What are Navigation Menus in WordPress?

Menus or Navigation menus is a theme feature in WordPress which allows a user to create custom menus in WordPress. Users can add WordPress posts, pages, categories and custom links to navigation menus using drag and drop functionality. Users can change their menu items appearance by adding custom classes.

Some WordPress themes support multiple menus so that a user can create header, footer and secondary navigation menus for their blog. Users can also add their custom navigation menus in the sidebar using widgets.

A user can create navigation menus for their blog under Appearance > Menus by logging in their WordPress dashboard.

What are the uses of Navigation menus in WordPress?

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