Title: ? changed to ?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# ? changed to ?

 *  [taylorhuston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taylorhuston/)
 * (@taylorhuston)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-to/)
 * For some reason whenever I set a custom permalink to have a ? in it the ? gets
   replaced by %3F. This is a recent error, as all my older blog postings have a?
   in the link. But for some reason, going forward (even if I try and change the
   permalink on older postings) the ? is replaced. For example, a blog post that
   already exists:
 * `http://blog.coachingwebsites.com/?i-really-could-use-a-nap`
    The permalink is:`?
   i-really-could-use-a-nap`
 * That is also what is in the ‘custom_permalink’ Custom Field
 * But if make a new test blog and set the permalink to
    `?this-is-a-test` the ‘
   custom_permalink’ Custom Field will auto set itself to `%3Fthis-is-a-test`
 * and the link for the blog post will be
    `http://blog.coachingwebsites.com/%3Fi-
   really-could-use-a-nap` While the following will just redirect to my blog homepage`
   http://blog.coachingwebsites.com/?i-really-could-use-a-nap`
 * Again, only affecting new postings going forward, all previous postings work 
   fine, as long as I don’t touch them or try and change the permalink. If I do 
   it will start setting all ? to %3F and I can’t change it back.
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