Can someone give me more info on “permalinks” and how it works?

Posted by admin in Chatter on Jul 6th, 2009 | 1 comment

smartfood08 asked:


I’m compiling social bookmarking sites and am not sure how permalinks work. Can someone give me more detail or point me to a resource that can explain this in more detail? Thank you!



One Response to “Can someone give me more info on “permalinks” and how it works?”

  1. says:
    July 9, 2009 at 6:55 am

    Basically, as far as I understand it, a “permalink” is basically a link that is guaranteed not to change.

    For example, the content management system APLAWS (mainly built by a few local councils in the UK) is notorious for this. You end up with a very long url that doesn’t work next time the page changes. So as a result they create a “permalink”, which is stored in the system and guaranteed to take you to the most current version of that page for as long as that page exists. For example, a page on my site is, which is a permanent link to …?p= some number or other that changes every time I update the page…

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