Title: Permalink Renaming
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink Renaming

 *  [jeffreytgomez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffreytgomez/)
 * (@jeffreytgomez)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-renaming/)
 * Hello everyone. I am trying to figure out how to clean up my addresses.
 * I have many different categories and want their addresses to be like the example
   below.
 * [http://www.thesnobmag.com/fashion/1](http://www.thesnobmag.com/fashion/1)
    [http://www.thesnobagm.com/autos/3](http://www.thesnobagm.com/autos/3)
 * Basically, I want the address, then category, then the number of the post. Is
   there anyway to do this?
 * Also, I would like to do it for my main menu as well, like /home, /aboutus, /
   contactus, etc.
 * I thank you in advance. Here is my website address. [http://www.thesnobmag.com](http://www.thesnobmag.com)

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 *  [kianoro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kianoro/)
 * (@kianoro)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-renaming/#post-1267514)
 * Yes,
 * Make sure your .htaccess is writable (use windows commander / or whatever you
   use for upload). Right-click on .htaccess. You will have CHANGE ATTRIBUTES. Put
   there 777. When you are done put back 644. After that use your wordpress Admin
   panel -> Settings -> Permalinks. You have it all there. Change whatever you want
   however you want it.
 *  [jimfreeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimfreeman/)
 * (@jimfreeman)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-renaming/#post-1267919)
 * I have had a non-wordpress site for years at [http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com).
   I recently switched host services and re-built my site using wordpress. During
   the re-building I left my old site live on the original server and built the 
   new site under the url (example) [http://123.45.67.891/userid](http://123.45.67.891/userid).
 * I completed the re-build and activated the new host with my url [http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com)
   but now my permalinks read like [http://123.45.67.891/userid/pagename](http://123.45.67.891/userid/pagename).
   Of course, I want them to read [http://www.example.com/pagename](http://www.example.com/pagename).
 * How do I correct this?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-renaming/#post-1267920)
    - See [Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
 *  [jimfreeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimfreeman/)
 * (@jimfreeman)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-renaming/#post-1267921)
 * yes, thanks, that was a useful reply. After 3 tries with my host tech support
   the solution turned out to be modifying the htaccess file.
 * the line in question was:
 * RewriteRule . /userid/index.php [L]
 * which needed to be changed to:
 * RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

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 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)
 * [renaming](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/renaming/)

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 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [jimfreeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimfreeman/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-renaming/#post-1267921)
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