What is a slug on a blog?
In WordPress, the “slug” refers to the part of a web page’s address that appears after the domain name. A simple WordPress slug example would be if you visited a blog post at www.example.com/blog-post, then “www.example.com” is the domain name, and “blog-post” is the post slug.
How do I remove slugs from my WordPress homepage?
Your home page is set in Settings > Reading in WordPress settings (access via Dashboard). When you make a page the “Front page”, it removes any permalinks from it. However, if you would like to change this, navigate to your pages section, and edit the page itself in the backend.
Why is my slug not working on my WordPress site?
Slugs rarely cause issues on WordPress sites. The main problem you may run into when working with them is if you’re trying to change the address of a new post or page, and the field to enter your new slug is missing: This happens because posts and pages must be saved at least once in order to update the slug.
What should the slug of a blog post be?
By default, the slug of any post you publish will be the same as the title, only lowercase and with dashes instead of spaces. For example, if you start a blog and write a post called “My First Blog Post”, then the default post slug would be “my-first-blog-post”.
What happens if you change the slug of a page?
You’re very welcome 🙂 To answer your question: If you change the slug of a page after publishing, you’ll need a redirect. Otherwise, existing links pointing to the old slug will be broken, as they’re referring to a slug that’s no longer used.
How does a good slug affect your Seo?
Writing a good slug for your page or post can positively affect your SEO. It allows you to do the following things: The main SEO benefit of a slug is that you can change the words to make sure that it has the words that you really want to rank for. It’s one of the indicators Google uses to determine what a page is about.