Title: customizing permalinks
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# customizing permalinks

 *  Resolved [tenzijth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tenzijth/)
 * (@tenzijth)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-permalinks-1/)
 * I would like to link one of my posts to one of my pages. for instance, the blog
   post is called “how to get there” and I would like it to go to the following 
   page domain.com/contact-us/how-to-get-there.
 * I’ve tried changing the permalink on the blog post but the slash between contact-
   us and how-to-get-there gets erased.
 * How can I achieve this?
 * Thank you,

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 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-permalinks-1/#post-2415441)
 * You can do that by choosing “Contact us” as the “parent page” in the Page Parent
   section on the “How to get there” page.
 * WordPress page URLs are created like this:
 * domain.com/parent-page/sub-page/sub-sub-page/
 * etc.
 * Reference: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Organizing_Your_Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Organizing_Your_Pages)
 *  Thread Starter [tenzijth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tenzijth/)
 * (@tenzijth)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-permalinks-1/#post-2415448)
 * Hi zoonini and thanks for your input. However, the page I need to link is actually
   not Page, but a Post, and as far as I can tell, there is no option to choose 
   a “parent page” for posts. Do you know what I mean?
 *  Thread Starter [tenzijth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tenzijth/)
 * (@tenzijth)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-permalinks-1/#post-2415449)
 * In the case that this isn’t possible, would there be a way to immediately redirect
   the post to the correct page?
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-permalinks-1/#post-2415450)
 * Sorry, I don’t think I understand exactly what you’re trying to accomplish or
   why.
 *  Thread Starter [tenzijth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tenzijth/)
 * (@tenzijth)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-permalinks-1/#post-2415451)
 * Ok, I’ll try to explain it better. On my homepage there is a normal navigation
   and also several highlighted blog posts. For one of the Blog Posts, I would like
   to link directly to another Page (not Post) on the website.
 * Right now, when I click on the Blog Post, it takes me to its own url. I would
   like it to take me to another existing page. The purpose of this Blog Post is
   just to highlight something that exists in a more complete form on another page.
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-permalinks-1/#post-2415453)
 * If you’re comfortable editing your .htaccess file (or you have a hosting control
   panel that offers a GUI for it) you can try to set up a redirect. If editing 
   your .htaccess manually, the format is:
 * `Redirect 301 /the-blog-post-slug/ http://www.yoursite.com/contact-us/how-to-
   get-there/`
 * Be sure to put this redirect **above** your WordPress permalink rules.
 * Be very careful if manually editing your .htaccess as you can mess up your site
   badly. Make a backup of it first.
 *  Thread Starter [tenzijth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tenzijth/)
 * (@tenzijth)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-permalinks-1/#post-2415469)
 * I just downloaded the following plug-in: Quick Page/Post Redirect DEV
 * Easy to use, does what I needed without messing with htaccess.
    Thanks for your
   help though!
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-permalinks-1/#post-2415470)
 * Glad you found a solution!

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 * Last reply from: [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-permalinks-1/#post-2415470)
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