Today, I will show you how to use the ‘Permalinks’ feature in Wordpress. ‘Permalinks’ stand for Permanent Links to your posts. This feature can well be configured using the Permalinks Settings Option. It can be used to create a new URL structure, minimal or fancy looking or maybe a whacky word can be formed in the URL itself.

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.

To configure the Permalinks goto the Permalink Box under the Settings tab. Go through. You will encounter a page displaying various permalink types including the default one for you to choose.

%year%

The year of the post, four digits, for example 2004

%monthnum%

Month of the year, for example 05

%day%

Day of the month, for example 28

%hour%

Hour of the day, for example 15

%minute%

Minute of the hour, for example 43

%second%

Second of the minute, for example 33

%postname%

A sanitized version of the title of the post.

%post_id%

The unique ID # of the post, for example 423

%category%

A sanitized version of the category name.

%tag%

A sanitized version of the tag name.

%author%

A sanitized version of the author name.

You can use the above mentioned snippets to create your own Permalinks. You may even try cool ones like,

• /its%post_id%/ >> will give you something like >> http://domain.tld/its123/
• /shownumber%post_id%/ >> will give you something like >> http://domain.tld/shownumber123/
• /this/is/number/%post_id%/ >> will give you something like >> http://domain.tld/this/is/number/123

You can also create many cool and trendy custom Permalinks as you like.

Do Not Forget to post your cool and wacky Permalink as a comment. (Claim Bragging Rights!)

Wibiya is a website application offering custom user built web toolbars for putting up on websites and blogs. It enhances the beauty and design of the blog and can also be used just for the sake of easing out the reader’s experience on the blog.

Wibiya enables blogs to integrate the most exciting services, applications and widgets of their choice into their blog through customized web-based toolbars.
Our platform offers a one-stop solution for integrating, managing and tracking third-party applications.

But, as every rose has thorns. Wibiya too has both pros and cons. The first setback being that Wibiya does not allow direct user registration. You have to firstly apply for a invite to its private Beta mode. Done that, after sometime, it automatically mails you with an invite.

Another setback with Wibiya is that it comes as a plugin for Wordpress, which has to be uploaded, activated and then works. This is not the problem. The actual problem is that the plugin queries the Wibiya’s website for displaying the toolbar on the client’s browser which takes some what longer than it would have taken on the blog’s server itself. Pondering over this. It struck to me that even this has an advantage. It helps to save on valuable bandwidth which is helpful in cases with limited bandwidth web hosts.

Wibiya : Demo (see below) | Website

I was exploring Mofuse when I saw the QR Code for my blog and an idea struck me. It was of a plugin for Wordpress where the author can display the QR Code of the blog or any other URL.
So, I decided upon the name of the plugin – QRC and started some cool coding. It isn’t finished yet. I will make it available for download soon.

QR Code – Wikipedia | Creator | Reader

Wordpress is all about cool customizations to tackle your needs.

Extending this idea, here I am posting on how to customize your admin panel and login screen.
I tried my best to make this post the simplest way to customizing your Wordpress experience.
First of all, download the login.css, wp-login.php and colors-fresh.css files to your computer from the Wordpress directory in your blog.
Edit login.css for changing the color of the login form and the displayed logo.
Edit colors-fresh.css for changing the whole look of your admin panel (on every page.)
And, edit wp-login.php for changing the links from the logo and the displayed text, along with the login form.

There it is. You wanted more? Perhaps its the Wordpress’ famous 5 minute customization!

Links : Screenshot | Related Articles

Laconica is an open source microblogging server written in PHP that implements the OpenMicroBlogging standard for interoperation between installations. While offering functionality similar to Twitter, Laconica seeks to provide the potential for open, inter-service and distributed communications between microblogging communities. Enterprises and individuals can install and control their own services and data

Laconica is a Free and Open Source Self Hosted replacement to Twitter and other microblogging tools and services. Many of Laconica eye catching features include Twitter compatibility and Facebook integration. It also features OpenID support and posts messages to other microblogging services as well. One of its useful functions include an automatic URL shortening service.
It is the same platform behind Identi.ca, the microblogging client hosted by the creators of Laconica (Pretty much a Wordpress story!).

Laconica : Home | Download | Demo

I had been thinking from a very long time about contributing to the Wordpress community. So, here it is, Factopedia is a new Wordpress plugin designed by me. When activated this plugin displays a random fact or stat in the top right hand corner of your admin screen on all the pages.
As I said before, I would love to contribute to the Wordpress Community, a new theme : Perfectography is currently under development and will be ready for download soon.
The plugin will be available for download from the Wordpress SVN soon.

FlatPress is an open-source standard-compliant multi-lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a DataBase Management System to work.

Flatpress is a very cool and clean web development and blogging platform for amateurs as well as those who do not have access to a SQL Database. It is a very compact and small CMS compared to others.

You don’t need MySQL because FlatPress stores all of its content on text files.

It runs on PHP (4.0 and above). It fully widgetized and (x)HTML compliant. I earlier tried using it for this blog but found it lacking in many aspects as compared to the best in the arena – Wordpress.
Flatpress‘ major drawback is the limited amount of themes and plugins available for use with it unlike the case in Wordpress. The themes for Flatpress are based on Smarty – The PHP Template Engine. I personally liked the ‘Hemingway’ Theme for Flatpress and then came across the same theme designed for using in Wordpress. It is a minimal, black and clean theme for Wordpress as well as for Flatpress.

Hemingway Theme – Demo | Download | Release Page | For Flatpress

Flatpress – Download | Official Website

bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed. We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add on features through our extensive plugin system.

bbPress has been designed by Automattic – The creators of Wordpress, Wordpress MU, BuddyPress, Akismet among others. It is a lightweight, agile and compact forum software which enables the user to start his own forum on his own server.
bbPress‘ functionality can be extended to a great extent using the various plugins which are available for download. bbPress runs on PHP and also requires a MySQL Database to function.

bbPress – Download | Official Website