My website is www.CashHelwig.com just created a day or 2 ago. Its a project for my business class. But, I have a question about my links. When you click the about link, or the Recomended resources. How do i make it go to like...www.cashhelwig.com/aboutme rather thank cashhelwig.com/?page_id=2. Thanks in advance
This depends on your server settings mainly (webserver configuration). The general solution is: log into your Wordpress Dashboard. Go to Settings - Permalinks Tab - choose "custom structure" there and fill in: In order for this to work, you'll need to use .htaccess mod_rewrite to redirect all requests to index.php so that you won't get Error 404. Here is step by step tutorial: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks This is in case of Apache Webserver. In case of Lightspeed, you'll need to manually put rewrite rules in your lighttpd configuration file. Something like this:
thanks for the spedy reply im using namecheap hosting. is that good hosting btw? so do i do what u just said with that host?
o i figured it out. thank you so much. the going into dashboard, permalinks, custom worked perfect. thanks
Glad to hear the simple solution works. As I've said it depends on your hosting settings. Sometimes it works without mod_rewrite, sometimes it doesn't.