Build a Website #12 — Permalink Settings in WordPress

This part sets up the permalink structure for your WordPress site. Getting permalinks right is one of the simplest SEO moves you can make — Google likes clean, predictable URLs.

Path: wp-adminSettings > Permalinks. The video uses this pattern (post title + date in URL):

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%.html

If your audience is local, also localise the Tag base and Category base (e.g. etiket, kategori for Turkish) so URLs read natively.

2026 Recommendation

  • Date-based URLs are out of fashion — they make posts look old as time passes. The modern default is /%postname%/.
  • Changing permalink structure on a live site requires 301 redirects from old to new (Yoast/Rank Math, or the Redirection plugin).
  • Before any change, snapshot your high-impression URLs from Search Console.

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