Title: Permalink
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink

 *  [maryna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maryna/)
 * (@maryna)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-12/)
 * Can someone explain Permalink “in English?”
    Thanks 🙂

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 *  [alism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alism/)
 * (@alism)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-12/#post-1211480)
 * Does this make it any clearer?
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Permalink](http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Permalink)
 *  Thread Starter [maryna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maryna/)
 * (@maryna)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-12/#post-1211482)
 * Thank you – I was hoping that it might be what I’m looking for – but it is not
   🙁
 *  [alism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alism/)
 * (@alism)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-12/#post-1211486)
 * Ok, well a Permalink is as you could probably guess, a permanent link to a post.
 * Imagine that your blog shows the five most recent posts you wrote on the homepage.
   As you add posts, the oldest post will drop onto page 2 and the newest one will
   get added to the top of page 1. As you keep posting, new ones keep being added
   to the top of page one, and the older ones will eventually get pushed off the
   page to make room.
 * If you blog every day, the content of your homepage would completely change within
   the space of a week.
 * But… if you wrote a really good post and I want to link to it, there’s no point
   me linking to your homepage – as the post I’m linking to will soon have dropped
   off your homepage. I want to link to the post itself – ie the Permalink, as that
   will always show the content of that post.
 * [http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com) is the homepage of your blog
   
   [http://www.example.com/really-interesting-post](http://www.example.com/really-interesting-post)
   is the permalink to that post.
 * Make sense?
 *  Thread Starter [maryna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maryna/)
 * (@maryna)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-12/#post-1211490)
 * Yes, it does make sense – thanks. So, can a visitor to a website still make comments
   on a permalink even if it has drop off the page? And when does a posting go into
   the archive page?
    Here’s my real problem….. Will a permalink solve my problem?
   A friend of my has an exciting website and he has a blog page. He has asked me
   to rebuild his website. Easy enough! I’ve re-built his website on Netobjects 
   Fusion and it looks great. But now I need to import or embed his blog on his 
   new website. I don’t know too much about blogging – no, I mean, I know nothing
   about blogging. How do I do that? I’ve tried exporting the blog in WordPress 
   and it export it in .xml format – but NOW would you believe: Netobjects Fusion
   can’t import .xml files. Thanks for your time…..
 *  [alism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alism/)
 * (@alism)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-12/#post-1211494)
 * Yes, visitors can comment on a permalink page. Pages are grouped (or ‘archived’)
   by month and by whatever categories it was placed in initially for example.
 * Must admit I’m not familiar with Netobjects Fusion. If it’s a static website 
   builder, you should just be able to customize WordPress to look identical to 
   the site you’ve already created with that. Then the WordPress blog would just
   look like part of the site. Might not be the easiest job in the world though 
   if you’re not familiar with WordPress though, as you’d be creating your own ‘
   theme’.
 *  Thread Starter [maryna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maryna/)
 * (@maryna)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-12/#post-1211500)
 * Thanks for your help – I must admit, I’m sorry I took on this job. It is much
   more difficult than I thought.
    I’ve created great looking websites with Fusion
   but never one that includes a blog – so, I’m totally lost. To create one’s own‘
   theme’ in WordPress, do you need any html knowledge? I freeze up everytime I 
   just hear “html” Next thing to do, is to “just-say-no” to the job – which is 
   not easy to do in the current economic climate 🙁 Thanks for your time 🙂
 *  [kperrone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kperrone/)
 * (@kperrone)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-12/#post-1211501)
 * Hey Maryna, just a tip of what I think would be easiest in your situation. Create
   the theme/template using whatever means you normally do. Then plug all of the
   WordPress tags in where they need to be after you’re done. Just seems like that
   would be easier.

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