Title: Permalink Issue
Last modified: August 7, 2017

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# Permalink Issue

 *  [nowordneeded](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nowordneeded/)
 * (@nowordneeded)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-74/)
 * Hello:
 * I wanted a media section on my site using a plugin that was designed by a friend.
   That plugin requires a category taxonomy that would have changed the post structure
   of my main site, so I decided to set up the media section on a new directory 
   with a new install of WordPress. So that would be yoursite.org/media. When it
   was on my main site I had the navigation links set up with the page of “Videos”.
   I decided that instead of trying to set everything up again I would do an export
   of the main site contents as an xml file per the WordPress Tools. I set up the
   new WordPress install on the new subdirectory and ran the importer to bring the
   original settings and such into the new install. The issue now is that the permalink
   structure is still including the old name of:
 * yoursite.org/media/videos/category/video-name-here
 * And I cannot get rid of the “videos” part no matter how much I try to update 
   the permalink structure. What can I do to get it to just be:
 * yoursite.org/media/category/video-name-here
 * Thanks.

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 *  [a2hostingrj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a2hostingrj/)
 * (@a2hostingrj)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-74/#post-9386282)
 * What’s the new permalink setting? Are you sure there isn’t a page using the videos
   slug?
 *  Thread Starter [nowordneeded](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nowordneeded/)
 * (@nowordneeded)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-74/#post-9386294)
 * The setting is set to Custom with this:
 * /%category%/%postname%/
 * There is no page using that slug. I’ve looked, but nothing. the structure is
 * yoursite.org/media/category/video-name-here but that part of the link is still
   there. No idea why.
 *  Thread Starter [nowordneeded](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nowordneeded/)
 * (@nowordneeded)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-74/#post-9390189)
 * Still no resolution?
 *  Thread Starter [nowordneeded](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nowordneeded/)
 * (@nowordneeded)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-74/#post-9396549)
 * Bueller. Bueller.
 *  [a2hostingrj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a2hostingrj/)
 * (@a2hostingrj)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-74/#post-9396864)
 * It doesn’t make sense, if there are no pages and permalinks settings are changed,
   it should be gone by now. Can you check the .htaccess?
 *  Thread Starter [nowordneeded](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nowordneeded/)
 * (@nowordneeded)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-74/#post-9400227)
 * # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /media/
   RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond%{
   REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /media/index.php [L] </IfModule>
 * # END WordPress
 * That is what it says. And I’m still getting the “videos” in the string.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by [nowordneeded](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nowordneeded/).

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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: [nowordneeded](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nowordneeded/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-74/#post-9400227)
 * Status: not resolved

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