Title: Adding to my Custom Permalink
Last modified: June 7, 2017

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# Adding to my Custom Permalink

 *  [sherissedw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sherissedw/)
 * (@sherissedw)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-to-my-custom-permalink/)
 * If I add on to my custom permalink will it change all existing articles or will
   it apply to all new articles. I need to add author and category to the ends of
   my article so I can easily search for categories or authors on Google Analytics
   to see how a certain category or author is doing on our site.
 * Right now my permalinks are set as “post name”: [http://www.deliberatemagazine.com/sample-post/](http://www.deliberatemagazine.com/sample-post/)
 * I want to change it to:
    [http://www.deliberatemagazine.com/%postname%%author%%category%](http://www.deliberatemagazine.com/%postname%%author%%category%)

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-to-my-custom-permalink/#post-9203475)
 * It will change all existing articles. You may want to put dashes or underscores
   in there between the tokens to make the URLs more readable.
 *  Thread Starter [sherissedw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sherissedw/)
 * (@sherissedw)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-to-my-custom-permalink/#post-9203487)
 * Okay what if I edit the links on the optional section below. I have 1075 articles
   on my site so there’s no way I can make that many redirects. Is there a way to
   tag on author and category to my new articles without having to do it manually?
   Is that what the “optional” section is for below the permalink settings?
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-to-my-custom-permalink/#post-9203501)
 * You’d do it in the Custom Structure field using these tags:
    [https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 *  Thread Starter [sherissedw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sherissedw/)
 * (@sherissedw)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-to-my-custom-permalink/#post-9203542)
 * But will changing it make all my previous links give 404 errors? I don’t want
   to create 301 redirects and I don’t want my site to be giving multiple 404 errors.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-to-my-custom-permalink/#post-9203571)
 * no, that’s not what the optional section does. The posts should have “canonical”
   tags in them, so I don’t think a 301 redirect will be necessary.
 *  Thread Starter [sherissedw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sherissedw/)
 * (@sherissedw)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-to-my-custom-permalink/#post-9203625)
 * Okay, to clarify me adding “/%postname%-%author%-%category%” after my domain 
   on the “Custom Structure” under “Common Settings” won’t require 301 redirects.
 * Sorry for the back and forth. I’m really not following on what I should and should
   not do and I don’t want to mess up my site and lose revenue.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-to-my-custom-permalink/#post-9203654)
 * Try it on a test site.
 *  Thread Starter [sherissedw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sherissedw/)
 * (@sherissedw)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-to-my-custom-permalink/#post-9203914)
 * Unfortunately, I don’t have another wordless.org test site and the permalink 
   settings are not showing up one of my old free WordPress sites. Is there any 
   ways to test this out or be sure I won’t get 404 error page or have I hit a brick
   wall and need to redirect all 1075 articles?

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 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)

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