Title: Invalid Permalinks
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Invalid Permalinks

 *  [Jon Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jb510/)
 * (@jb510)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-permalinks/)
 * I did a S&R changing “rainforest” to “rain forest”.
 * Came across one issue.
 * It dropped a space into my permalinks that had “rainforest” in them. On output
   they showed as rain%20forest, but that’s not valid, it should have been rain-
   forest.
 * It seems to me permalinks ought to be escaped to use hyphens… maybe even regex
   to identify inline links in content and drop hyphens in there to.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Frank Bueltge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bueltge/)
 * (@bueltge)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-permalinks/#post-3631130)
 * Thanks for this hint. Do you use the s/r about all tables or custom tabels form
   the second part of the plugin?
 *  Thread Starter [Jon Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jb510/)
 * (@jb510)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-permalinks/#post-3631131)
 * Most often I use all tables.
 * However, since slug (post_name) is stored in wp_posts table it can’t really be
   isolated by that UI to avoid this.

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 * Last reply from: [Jon Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jb510/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-permalinks/#post-3631131)
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