Edit Permalink Structure

WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URI structure for your permalinks and archives. The following “tags” are available:

• %year% --- The year of the post, 4 digits, for example 2004
• %monthnum% --- Month of the year, for example 05
• %day% --- Day of the month, for example 28
• %postname% --- A sanitized version of the title of the post. So “This Is A Great Post!” becomes “this-is-a-great-post” in the URI
• %post_id% --- The unique ID # of the post, for example 423

So for example a value like:

/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

would give you a permalink like:

/archives/2003/05/23/my-cheese-sandwich/

In general for this you must use mod_rewrite, however if you put a filename at the beginning WordPress will attempt to use that to pass the arguments, for example:

/index.php/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

If you use this option you can ignore the mod_rewrite rules.

Use the template tags above to create a virtual site structure:

Using the permalink structure value you currently have, , these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase <?php echo $site_root; ?> <?php $rewrite = rewrite_rules('', $permalink_structure); foreach ($rewrite as $match => $query) { echo 'RewriteRule ^' . $match . ' ' . $site_root . $query . " [QSA]\n"; } ?>

If your .htaccess file is writable by WordPress, you can edit it through your template interface.