Title: Changing permalink structure
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Changing permalink structure

 *  [ucarmetin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ucarmetin/)
 * (@ucarmetin)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalink-structure-5/)
 * Hey!
 * I’m running a magazine website with the following permalink structure
    `/%category%/%
   postname%/`
 * There are approximately 500 posts having this permalink structure on my site.
   However due to various reasons, I’d like to change this structure to the following
   structure
    `/%post_id%/%postname%/`
 * Before doing that, I would like to know how such change will affect my site, 
   its navigation, its ranking on google, bing, etc. There are some forum discussion
   on this matter, but I couldn’t come across any unique answer.
 * Besides that, what would be the most appropriate way to update the permalink 
   structure? Shall I use default wordpress controls to accomplish that or shall
   I use a plugin to handle that?
 * Thanks.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalink-structure-5/#post-2089100)
 * review: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)

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