Title: Numeric slugs
Last modified: November 13, 2020

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# Numeric slugs

 *  [smily03](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smily03/)
 * (@smily03)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/numeric-slugs/)
 * I’m trying to build a new WordPress site to replace my existing Google Sites 
   site (which replaced an old Drupal site.) Up to this point I’ve been able to 
   bring the URLs along (setting the permalinks to use a custom structure of /node/
   postname_here/)
 * This works fine for alphanumeric permalinks, such as
    my.site.com/node/my-awesome-
   post
 * However, the old posts that I want to bring along, which were originally on Drupal,
   have permalinks in the format of
    my.site.com/node/5/
 * When I click one of those links, the browser does a 301 redirect to
    my.site.
   com/node/
 * Is there any way that I can get the old all-numeric permalinks to work?

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 *  Moderator [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * (@tobifjellner)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/numeric-slugs/#post-13657209)
 * A slug in WordPress should never contain a slash `/`
    Just a number might mess
   things up, since they may be seen as Post ID, but would most probably change 
   after import. I’d try to replace that slash with a hyphen `-` If your server 
   uses Apache, then you could add a custom rewrite rule in .htaccess to replace`/
   node/` with `/node-`, if needed.
 *  Thread Starter [smily03](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smily03/)
 * (@smily03)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/numeric-slugs/#post-13661407)
 * I guess I’m confused…my “slugs” are just numbers (2, 12, 15, etc. – that’s all
   that I’ve typed in the “URL Slug” box is just a number.)
 * The “permalink settings” page has lots of slashes in the choices –
    Day and Name–
   [https://my.site.com/2020/11/14/sample-post/](https://my.site.com/2020/11/14/sample-post/)
   Month and name – [https://my.site.com/2020/11/sample-post/](https://my.site.com/2020/11/sample-post/)
   Numeric – [https://my.site.com/archives/123](https://my.site.com/archives/123)
   Post name – [https://my.site.com/sample-post/](https://my.site.com/sample-post/)
 * This is the one I’m using –
    Custom structure – [https://my.site.com/node/%postname%](https://my.site.com/node/%postname%)
 *  Moderator [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * (@tobifjellner)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/numeric-slugs/#post-13661839)
 * Those are settings for how WordPress is going to generate (and understand) URL’s.
   
   the `slug` in this case is %postname% (which in the samples is represented as`
   sample-post`. And as you can see, there may be formats where just digits will
   be regarded as archive addresses. Let’s say you’ve got a node with number 2019.
   Should WordPress show a yearly archive, or just the node 2019 if a visitor requests/
   2019/ ?
 *  Thread Starter [smily03](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smily03/)
 * (@smily03)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/numeric-slugs/#post-13705446)
 * Since I’m not using “day and name,” “month and name,” or “numeric”, I guess I
   would expect that “post name” should work correctly since those posts are named“
   3” (etc.)
 * For my part, I’m just trying to get it to work. Is there any way to name one 
   post “3” and another “sample-post”?
 *  Moderator [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * (@tobifjellner)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/numeric-slugs/#post-13705732)
 * I just tried a bit on my test-blog. The currently assigned post ID is somewhere
   between 600 and 700. So I name new page, say, 2078. According to my slug structure
   it ought to have been given the slug /2078. But since just numbers are reserved
   slugs, WordPress automatically changed the slug to /2078-2.
 * So yes, in order to get this to work, you’ll have to somehow change the post 
   names to include something more than just digits. Previously, I suggested that
   you prefix them. WordPress itself adds a suffix, as you see here.

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