Title: Permalink Query
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Permalink Query

 *  [tonywright](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonywright/)
 * (@tonywright)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-query/)
 * Currently, all my existing posts and new posts have/will have the complicated
   webpage addresses with numbers and question marks.
 * I realise that if a post about eg. football had the address [http://www.mydomain.com/football](http://www.mydomain.com/football)
   rather than [http://www.mydomain.com/?343493](http://www.mydomain.com/?343493)
   it would benefit the site and users.
 * I was wondering, if I change the permalink options, would all my existing pages
   change to the new format of address, or would only new posts be named in the 
   newly specified manner?
 * Thanks,
 * Tony.

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 *  [devilmaycry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devilmaycry/)
 * (@devilmaycry)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-query/#post-354219)
 * As far as I’m aware all pages/posts will be rewritten to the more search engine
   friendly version.
 *  [red-star](https://wordpress.org/support/users/red-star/)
 * (@red-star)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-query/#post-354221)
 * Thats correct Devilmaycry
 *  Thread Starter [tonywright](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonywright/)
 * (@tonywright)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-query/#post-354247)
 * Thanks guys. I was wondering if anyone could tell me the structure tag so that
   all the post addresses are named after the post title, and what I actually have
   to do to the htaccess file to make the changes function correctly.
 * thanks again.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-query/#post-354248)
 * Log in as admin, look at Options -> Permalinks. Some examples are already there
   and there’s a hyperlink to more information.
 * If your .htaccess is writeable by your web server process, it will add the entries
   automatically. If it isn’t, it will display (at the bottom of the page) the entries
   YOU need to manually add.
 *  Thread Starter [tonywright](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonywright/)
 * (@tonywright)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-query/#post-354255)
 * Thanks a lot for your help. It’s all sorted at [http://www.rapnews.co.uk](http://www.rapnews.co.uk)
   apart from one quite big problem.
 * When you click for example, the ‘Alex Blood’ link on my main page, all the links
   in the sidebar are altered to be within the alexblood/ address, but they aren’t
   there and an error message appears…and ideas guys?
 * That’s in reference to combining the category/post name tag as opposed to the
   post name tag, which works correctly

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [tonywright](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonywright/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-query/#post-354255)
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