Changing URLS to something SEO friendly.

It’s called permalinks; that will give you the info you need to set them the way you want/need.

Excellent newsdevice! Very cool.

Another related question if I can bother you:

My site lives in a subdirectory.

When the time comes to take the site live – I was just going to point the domain to that subdirectory.

It exists now as: https://www.mydomain.com/subdirectory

Once I point the domain – it should just be: https://www.mydomain.com

Should I wait until I point the domain to change the permalinks?

Because currently – ALL my choices in the permalinks include that subdirectory – for example: https://mydomain.com/mysubdirectory/2012/04/sample-post/

I just don’t want to break anything. Does that make sense?

I never use a public/live WordPress installation in anything other then the top level of a domain. I do, however, use subdirectory/subdomains for test beds. I would recommend reading the Codex doc: Giving WordPress Its Own Directory and then consider having a domain (or subdomain) as a sandbox to your live site.

So – just to reiterate according to that Codex (just making sure):

1 – I would leave the site where it is in the subdirectory.
2 – Then follow the directions under “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install” – by copying and changing the specified index.php and htaccess files then Moving the web.config file.

3 – Then set up my permalinks.

Sound correct? I will follow the directions. Thanks!

Will do. Just learning all this.
Thanks!