How to Enable Permalinks in Wordpress

In order to migrate products, orders and customers from WooCommerce to Shopify using Ablestar WooCommerce Importer, you have to change permalink settings before enabling the API.

What are Permalinks?

Permalinks are a feature of WordPress that makes the links on your site look more natural to humans. For example, instead of a link to a blog post, look like http://www.example.com/?p=491, it would look like http://www.example.com/blog/what-are-permalinks.

This not only makes it easier to read but also has SEO benefits.

Changing your Permalink Settings

From the Wordpress admin dashboard:

1. Click Settings on the left navigation menu 
2. Click the Permalinks submenu 

Note that the 'Plain' setting is selected which means that permalinks are disabled:

In order to meet requirements for the WooCommerce API, choose any other option besides the first 'Plain' option.

Click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page to apply the permalink change.

Confirm your Permalinks

Navigate to the homepage of your WordPress site and click on any blog post link. If permalinks are configured correctly, the URL to the post will be in the 'Day and name' or other format that you chose above.

Troubleshooting

Some hosting providers require server settings to be changed in order for the permalinks to work. If the URL structure is not yet visible, or pages are not yet visible using the new URL structure, you may need to contact your hosting provider.

Learn more about Wordpress permalinks and structures.

✅ Tips and Troubleshooting

• Learn more about Wordpress Permalink settings
• Changing permalinks is necessary before you can import products from WooCommerce to Shopify

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