Permalinks and post slugs for the “nicer” URLs

Did you ever wonder how to tidy up the URLs which have messy search strings which look like this ?page_id=# ? Well you can use permalinks.

What is a post slug? Actually, it’s just the page name used for your URL if you are using permalinks. By default, your post slug will automatically be your page title, however this can be change in the “Write Page”. I would strongly advise you to change your post slug for your pages if you have page title like “Adding a border to your image using Adobe Photoshop”. The reason being your permalinks will be too long. Instead, use a shorter URL like “adding-border” will be much better.