Title: Enable Permalinks
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Enable Permalinks

 *  [iralee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iralee/)
 * (@iralee)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-permalinks/)
 * I’m new too the internet so please bear with me.
    My question is; how do I enable
   permalinks? I know that it is what I need to do, I just don’t know where I do
   it. Thank You in advance for your time and help. Iralee

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 *  [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
 * (@tomhanna)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-permalinks/#post-270411)
 * Why do you need to do it? Think long and hard…
 * You do it under Options | Permalinks in the Administration Panel.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels](http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels)
 *  Thread Starter [iralee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iralee/)
 * (@iralee)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-permalinks/#post-270414)
 * Thank you for replying,
    I think thatI need to do it so that my archive will 
   show up. According to this post [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/38413](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/38413)
   I found the options/permalinks page and cut and pasted one of the lines into 
   the template structure box, now I can’t see anypage, there are only error messages.
   including my homepage and my dashboard…. help?
 *  [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
 * (@tomhanna)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-permalinks/#post-270427)
 * Yeah, that’s why I said to think hard before you do it. I have never used custom
   permalinks and my archives work just fine. I’ve never had any luck getting them
   to work and never felt the loss.
 *  Thread Starter [iralee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iralee/)
 * (@iralee)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-permalinks/#post-270548)
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/38413/page/2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/38413/page/2)
   
   According to this forum, it is what I want to be doing, I think. Can you help
   me decide upon a better strategy so that I might see my archives page? thanks
   Again. Ira
 *  [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
 * (@tomhanna)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-permalinks/#post-270874)
 * Ah, I see what you’re saying. You don’t have to have *custom* permalinks enabled.
   The regular permalinks will work just fine. When that person wrote “link to the
   permalink” for the page they just meant the URL like you did with [http://www.iraleeanderson.com/?page_id=16](http://www.iraleeanderson.com/?page_id=16)
 * Permalinks are automatic in WordPress. It’s the Custom Permalinks that are problematic.

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