Learning How to Use UH WordPress
Using Permalinks
Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence permalink.
Choosing Your Permalink Structure
In the Settings → Permalinks Screen, you can choose one of the more common permalink structures or enter your own in the "Custom structure" field using the structure tags.
Note: You do not put your site url in the permalinks fields. You only use one of the structure tags, or a combination of tags.
Category Base and Tag Base
The Category base and Tag base are prefixes used in URLs for category and tag archives, which look like this:
UH System multisite
www.hawaii.edu/sitename/category_base/category_name
www.hawaii.edu/sitename/tag_base/tag_name
UH Manoa multisite
manoa.hawaii.edu/sitename/category_base/category_name
manoa.hawaii.edu/sitename/tag_base/tag_name
The default values for these are category and tag. You can change them, but you can’t remove them from the URLs altogether. Custom permalinks work on most systems without any problems, but there are still some conditions where problems occur.