How to Change Permalinks in Wordpress

In Wordpress, changing the permalinks structure is very easy. There are several options that you can choose from, such as http://yourdomain/2010/05/30/sample-post/ and http://yourdomain/archives/123. The default one is http://yourdomain/?p=123. If you like, you can use any one of them. But they are not optimized for search engine optimization(SEO) purpose.To get the best SEO permalinks, you have to use the "custome structure" function.

Here is the way to change permalink structure in Wordpress.
1. go to Settings-->Permalinks
2.in the common settings, you can choose from "default", "day and name","month and name","numerica" and "custome structure".For instance, you can set your custome structure as /%postname%/.

Top Poll and Rating Wordpress Plugins

If you run a wordpress blog, sometimes you may want to know your readers' opinion about the issue that you mentioned in your web-blog. The best way to get feedback from your readers is to hold a poll on your blog. Then you may need a wordpress poll plugin. The followings are top poll plugins.By installing the poll plugin, you can let your aundience vote on your blog.

WP-polls
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-polls
This one seems extremely popular. But the image shown on the screenshot page is not very attractive.

MicroPoll
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/micropoll
This one is lacking updates.

JR_Poll
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jr-poll

FlashPoll++
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flashpoll
This poll builder is a Flash-based one. But unfortunately they don't provide a demo or screenshot on wordpress.org.

PollDaddy Polls & Ratings
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polldaddy
As its name indicated, it can be used to create both polls and ratings. So it has two functions. I like it. Both paid and free version available, but you have to register at their website before you can use it.

SodaHead Polls
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sodahead-polls
It is just another plugin that you can use to generate a poll on your site.

WP Quick Polls
http://wpquickpolls.com/
This one looks nice but unfortunately it is not free. If you want to use it, you have to pay for it.

WP Easy Polls
http://wpeasypolls.com/
It is free, simple but good.

Vote-The-Post
http://www.1800blogger.com/word-press-voting-plugin/
This one has been mentioned on webdesignbooth.com as a professionally-designed computer application.

Star Rating for Reviews
http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/plugins/star-rating/
It seems that the latest version of this plugin was released in 2007.

Democracy AJAX Poll
http://blog.jalenack.com/archives/democracy/
The last time that this plugin was updated is more than 5 years ago. So, obviously I will pass this one.

GD Star Rating
http://www.gdstarrating.com/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-star-rating/
It has a professional appearance. It is a very popular plugin for building single, multiple and thrumb ratings on your wordpress blog.


Rating-Widget
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rating-widget/
If you need a very simple wordpress rating plugin, get this one.

Mombly Review Ratings
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mombly-review-rating/

Xavin’s Review Ratings
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xavins-review-ratings/
It is another ratings wordpress plugin to create 5 ratings.

Comment Rating Widget
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-rating-widget/
Comment Rating
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-rating/