Hi @gallifrey55,
The permalink field needs to be entered manually, it doesn’t auto-complete based on what you’ve entered in the blog’s Title field.
So let’s say your blog title is:
This is a blog post
If you do not manually enter a permalink in the permalink field, then RapidWeaver will generate a random link using letters, numbers, and perhaps a symbol like a dash. This is bad for SEO (supposedly, as we learned yesterday that Google says one thing and does another when it comes to SEO).
So in order to follow best practices, you will want to manually enter the permalink. Usually you just use the Blog Title, so from our example title above, you would enter in the permalink field:
this-is-a-blog-post
Then when you visit that blog post in your browser, the URL will look better.
Let me know if that doesn’t make sense. Also make sure you do not use spaces in the permalink field. In the above you can see I used a dash to separate each word. You would want to do the same for all your blog permalinks.
Update: I see where your confusion is coming it, the Docs state if permalinks are enabled it will generate the permalink based on the Blog Title. That doesn’t appear to be happening. Not sure if it’s a bug or if the Docs are wrong. Will check into it for you.
For now you’ll want to manually enter your permalinks in the permalink field if you want them to match your Blog Title.