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Permalinks

If you enabled permalinks in your Settings, you’ll see a Permalink field on each post and page. The portion highlighted in yellow is derived from the title, with spaces replaced by dashes and other punctuation removed. This is called the slug. (Posts, pages, categories, and tags all have slugs.) If you don’t like the generated slug or if it’s too long, you can edit it using the Edit button to the right (Figure 4-10). Note that you can’t edit the rest of the URL; it’s constructed based on the pattern you chose on the Permalink Settings panel.

If you edited your permalink and later decided you’d like to get the generated slug back, you can just delete everything in the slug field and press the Save button. WordPress will fill in the blank.

Figure 4-10. Editing the post slug