Title: Make having numeric date in permalink optional
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Make having numeric date in permalink optional

 *  [RyanWilliams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanwilliams/)
 * (@ryanwilliams)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-having-numeric-date-in-permalink-optional/)
 * Hi,
 * Anyone know if there’s a way to make the numeric date in the permalink optional?
   That is, it’ll take you to the right place whether you include try “/post-title/”
   or the whole “/2006/08/11/post-title/” URL.
 * At the moment it seems to take me to a 404 if I try just the post title, but 
   I’d really like the ability to make the title the only required part.
 * Hope somebody can help, and much thanks in advance! 🙂

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 *  [ethilien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethilien/)
 * (@ethilien)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-having-numeric-date-in-permalink-optional/#post-433921)
 * Just change your permalink format to “/archives/%postname%/” and the date won’t
   be necessary any more. Your posts will then be at example.com/archives/post-title/.
   Just be sure you never make two posts with the same name.

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