Wordpress Question

In my Wordpress blog, when I view some of the posts I've made they show up in the following format:
http://www.someblog.com/?p=3

I want each post to contain a html (or php) file containing the title of the post.

Meaning If I write about 'How to play football'

I want it to show up like http://www.someblog.com/how_to_play_football.html

rather than
http://www.someblog.com/?p=6

How can I make this happen

 

You have to change the permalinks in the Wordpress admin to %/postname/%

But you won't get the .html or .php bit on the end unless you make a .html or .php file in dreamweaver or whatever. Instead it will be www.someblog.com/how-to-play-football/

 

That's good enough, I'm gonna enter the admin panel and try to do that

 

You can try the following permalink structure: /%postname%.html

Usually WordPress automatically makes hyphens to separate words in the slug (i.e. how-to-play-football), but you may be able to enter a custom one with underscores.

 

Thanks guys, I did it .. it's the way I want it now !

 

change ur permalinks settings,choose custom settings as :
/%category%/%postname%/.html

I am using this format for all my blogs coz it helpful in SEO AND ADSENSE.

 

Yeah, that's the main reason why I'm doing this, for SEO purposes,

 

For permalinks issue, any issue, go to the last link of my signature named Wordpress SEO Blog and you'll see a post called 'Importance of Pretty Permalinks', read that post and choose what you feel is the perfect one for you. You might have to update the htaccess file as well. Just follow the link damn it and you'll be just fine. Lol. Sorry I cant post the link as I'm from my cell phone.

 

Thank you, I looked up your blog, you have a really good post, what I assumed is just confirmed in your post, I'm using %postname%.html ,because I feel it has the greatest SEO value, and I also installed a plugin which lets me set the meta tags with ease, so It's pretty well optimized, working on backlinks currently