How to Remove the Date from WordPress URLs Quickly Beyond 2020?

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How to Remove the Date from WordPress URLs
Quickly Beyond 2020?
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Remove the Date from WordPress URLs
WordPress has an SEO friendly URL structure,
where numerous link formats can enable the
exclusive WordPress customization options. It
includes the ones that add dates to the WordPress
postURLSs. Non-readable link structure for page
and post URLs are used by default, where post ID
is added in the URL. This structure neither looks
good nor holds any meaning. Luckily, WordPress
offers you the option of changing it to more
substantial and SEO friendly URLs.
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Why do you need to remove the Date?

• They are usually better than the default ones and
  are also SEO friendly.
• The presence of dates in the URLs has become a
  trend of the past.
• Once the alteration is done, the URLs unchanged
  date would still show it to be old.

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Steps to Remove the Date from the URL

• Before taking any measures, having a complete
  WordPress backup of your site is crucial.
• So that you can restore it with ease if this
  process does not have good results.
• There are two ways of doing so, but the first
  step of changing the settings to remove the date
  remains the same.

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Changing Settings to Remove the Date

• Permalinks settings need to be changed.
• You need to navigate to Settingsgt Permalinks on
  the left side of the bar of the WordPress admin
  area.
• Choose Name as the option and click on the
  Save Changes button to confirm and store the
  changes.

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How to Preserve SEO Rankings

• Plugin Option
• Rewrite the htaccess
• To Supper WordPress, a URL rewrite with the
  htaccess needs to be done.

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