How to Differentiate a Post From a Tag in WordPress
The blogging platform WordPress has default permalinks, or URL structures, for blog posts, categories and tags which you can customize through your administrator panel. By default, you can see all posts tagged with a certain tag by following the format domain.com/tags/name-of-tag. You can change "tags" in this permalink to another word of your choice, such as "keywords." The default permalink structure for a post is domain.com/?p=123, with "123" being the post's unique ID number. You have more flexibility in customizing post permalinks, as you can incorporate the word "posts," the publication date and/or the post title in the URL.
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Instructions
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Sign in to your WordPress administrator account.
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Click "Settings."
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Click "Permalinks."
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Choose one of the provided settings for a post permalink under "Common Settings," such as "Day and Name," "Month and Name" or "Numeric." Create your own custom permalink structure by selecting "Custom" and entering your custom structure code. Refer to the WordPress documentation at codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks for a complete list of permalink tags. For example, if you want a post permalink to follow the format domain.com/posts/post-title, you would enter "/posts/%postname%" in the "Custom" box.
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Enter a word to replace "tags" in the tags permalink structure in the "Tag Base" box. If you leave this field blank, the URL structure for a tag will remain domain.com/tags/name-of-tag.
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Click "Save Changes."
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Tips & Warnings
By default, your Wordpress administrator interface is at domain.com/wp-admin. Replace "domain.com" with the URL of your blog.
