When I first setup Wordpress with the defaults the URL appears as ‘http:://www.tonyprodger.com/?p=10′.
Not only is this unsightly it hampers Search engines sending traffic to your blog. How much better to see ‘http://tonyprodger.com/changing-blog/’.
To do this I logged into my admin area and selected settings, permalinks and then Custom Structure.
Then I entered   /%postname%/  .
(use /% postname%/ exactly [...]

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