Wordpress Index.php

Unlike a standard website which consists of individual web pages pages. A Wordpress blog/site only has one page.

The index.php page.

So if you access this http://blog.copeconsulting.co.uk/ppc/adwords-keyword-tool/

which is a page on my WordPress blog. You are not accessing a physical page on my blog as that  page doesn't physically exist.

What you are accessing is page from a database.

All pages/posts in a WordPress blog are stored in a MySQL database and you access them via the index.php page.

 So when you access: http://blog.copeconsulting.co.uk/ppc/adwords-keyword-tool/ what you are really accessing is: http://blog.copeconsulting.co.uk/index.php

and you are passing the php script ppc/adwords-keyword-tool/ as an index/key for the page/post you want.

How and why ?

The reason for the "nice urls" as opposed to the standard database access urls is that they are search engine friendly and It is done using the .htaccess file and php scripting.

You can find out how to enable nice urls in Wordpress Permalinks and the code flow is explained in the  Wordpress Code Flow document.

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Resources and Related articles:

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
• http://codex.wordpress.org/User:DavidHouse/Wordpress_Code_Flow