How To Enable Pretty Pernalinks in complianz

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   When you first time install this plugin you may come across a warning that says ” Pretty permalinks are not enabled on your site. This can cause issues with the REST API, used by Complianz” . Let’s first look at what some of the teams mean.

    What is a REST API?
REST API (also known as RESTful API) is an application programming interface (API or web API) that conforms to the constraints of REST architectural style and allows for interaction with RESTful web services. REST stands for representational state transfer and was created by computer scientist Roy Fielding.

   What is an API?
An API is a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software. It’s sometimes referred to as a contract between an information provider and an information user—establishing the content required from the consumer (the call) and the content required by the producer (the response).

   What is REST?
REST is a set of architectural constraints, not a protocol or a standard. API developers can implement REST in a variety of ways.When a client request is made via a RESTful API, it transfers a representation of the state of the resource to the requester or endpoint.

   Once we already know what all those terms means let’s see how we can get rid of this annoying red urgent message.

   When you click Enable, it takes you to a page that looks like the image below. When you get to the page, you need to select  Post name instead of Plain and then click Save changes.

   When you go back to Complianz Dashboard tab you should no longer see  [URGENT] message.