This should be one of your first ports of call when you enter the Wordpress dashboard for the first time - it will enable you to use words as your permalink making things look nice and more importantly - very googly. If you change this after you have posts then any permalinks from other sites will get a 404. There are work arounds but it is so much simpler to do it before posting anything…
Go to dashboard >settings> permalinks >custom structure then paste the following…
/%postname%/
and save…
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I have a feeling I’ll be here often Penfold. Please don’t think me a stalker, I only stalk that older Papersurfer, and that’s just because as his secretary, I have to keep tabs on him for his own good.
Thanks for the tips though… I know I’m going to find them useful.
No problem Fracas - thanks for swinging by. (He does need a firm hand…)
LOL, I could so make a joke there, but I won’t. How’s your Canadian lass doing? I hear there’s a lot of grrr’ing going on. Must be all those bears in that Canadian wilderness.
Back to other thoughts… is there a similar fix for the pages?
She’s all a bit snowed under at work at the mo but we’re working on an escape plan…
The best route for pages is to upgrade to a more recent version of wordpress which autofills your link to match the title of the page (with an option to edit just below in the editor). There are hacks to do past posts but they don’t look like fun to get involved with…