Title: Changing permalink structure
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Changing permalink structure

 *  Resolved [solarwind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solarwind/)
 * (@solarwind)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalink-structure-2-2/)
 * Hi,
    I have changed my permalink structure from default to /%postname%/ and it
   is causing problems with file pathways. I will try to explain what is happening.
 * [http://www.nightofa1000thrills.com/chatter/?page_id=2](http://www.nightofa1000thrills.com/chatter/?page_id=2)
 * the above link is the default structure. and works fine, but when I change to/%
   postname%/
 * nightofa1000thrills.com/chatter/about/
 * following the file pathway to images results in
 * nightofa1000thrills.com/chatter/about/images/desert_scene.jpg
 * instead of
 * nightofa1000thrills.com/chatter/images/desert_scene.jpg
 * I have done a couple of blogs before and don’t recall this problem.
 * Another example, when clicking onto a category and following pathway to missing
   image
 * nightofa1000thrills.com/chatter/category/1000-thrills-news/images/desert_scene.
   jpg
 * Trying to work this out, the style sheet images are working, but nothing from
   within the page including javascript.
 * the permalink structure seems to be inserting itself into the pathway.
 * Hope I made some sense, any tips would be great,
 * Cheers Paul

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalink-structure-2-2/#post-1538702)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?
 *  Thread Starter [solarwind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solarwind/)
 * (@solarwind)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalink-structure-2-2/#post-1538715)
 * Hi Esmi,
    Thanks for replying I have no active plugins at the moment, and have
   just checked default theme, but that didn’t highlight any problems. The blog 
   home page is fine, nightofa1000thrills.com/chatter/
 * the problem only occurs when category or archive is selected,
    I feel the solution
   is on the tip of my tongue, but just can’t figure it
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalink-structure-2-2/#post-1538736)
 * I’ve just been looking at the Well Hello World post on the front page, category
   page & single post page and I can’t see a problem with images. What I did notice
   was that your category template is using the_excerpt() instead of the_content()–
   which automatically strips out all images. If you can’t see a category.php template
   file, then your theme is re-using archive.php – which would also explain why 
   you’re not seeing images in archive pages.
 *  Thread Starter [solarwind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solarwind/)
 * (@solarwind)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalink-structure-2-2/#post-1538756)
 * Hi Esmi,
    sorry for the confusion, everything works with the permalink structure
   set to default, as it was when you looked at it, I will make the change to /%
   postname%/ so you can see exactly what is happening.
 * Thanks again
 *  Thread Starter [solarwind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solarwind/)
 * (@solarwind)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalink-structure-2-2/#post-1538854)
 * Got it sorted, used full links to the javascript in header.php, also moved slider
   code up there and gave images full links, to avoid changing single.php archive.
   php etc,
    Thanks for your help will look at changing _excerpt() instead of the_content()
 * Ta
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalink-structure-2-2/#post-1538909)
 * No problem. For future reference **always** use full urls in WordPress. It doesn’t
   function at all well with relative urls – as you’ve seen.

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