Title: Hide/Remove Permalinks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Hide/Remove Permalinks

 *  [lovelyjubbly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lovelyjubbly/)
 * (@lovelyjubbly)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hideremove-permalinks/)
 * Hi all,
 * I’m trying to remove permalinks from all my pages, is there a way to do this?
 * Many thanks

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 *  [Alwyn Botha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123milliseconds/)
 * (@123milliseconds)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hideremove-permalinks/#post-1974141)
 * Find and remove this in all your theme templates
 * `<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>`
 * its matching closing tag
 * `</a>`
 *  [Alwyn Botha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123milliseconds/)
 * (@123milliseconds)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hideremove-permalinks/#post-1974143)
 * Obviously create a child theme, copy the files that need changing to it, and 
   change that copy
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 *  Thread Starter [lovelyjubbly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lovelyjubbly/)
 * (@lovelyjubbly)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hideremove-permalinks/#post-1974157)
 * Hi 123, I’m not sure I understand,
 * Find and remove this in all your theme templates
 * its matching closing tag
 * I only have one template, do you you mean all the pages in the template? Or specific
   pages?
 * Thanks for the help 🙂
 * Lovelyjubbly
 *  [Alwyn Botha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123milliseconds/)
 * (@123milliseconds)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hideremove-permalinks/#post-1974306)
 * >>I only have one template, do you you mean all the pages in the template? Or
   specific pages?
 * I suspect you mean you have one THEME.
 * Within the theme folder `wp-content/themes/your-theme-name` you have many files;
   those are called `templates` OR template files … [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
 * In WP you can post POSTS or PAGES.
 * > Find and remove this in all your theme templates
 * So you have to remove the text I mentioned above in all the template files in
   the template directory where you find it.
 *  Thread Starter [lovelyjubbly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lovelyjubbly/)
 * (@lovelyjubbly)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hideremove-permalinks/#post-1974308)
 * Hi 123milliseconds,
 * Thanks for the follow up, I’ve been through every php file in the folder you 
   describe.
 * 
 * The folder includes the following template files:
 * block
    block_header comment onecolumn-page page pagination etc
 * Are these the sort of files I should be looking at?
 * Best wishes
 *  Thread Starter [lovelyjubbly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lovelyjubbly/)
 * (@lovelyjubbly)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hideremove-permalinks/#post-1974329)
 * I’m stuck now.
 * Can anyone help?
 * Thanks 🙂

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 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [lovelyjubbly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lovelyjubbly/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hideremove-permalinks/#post-1974329)
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