Title: Post(s) Number(s)
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Post(s) Number(s)

 *  [Sandman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandman/)
 * (@sandman)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-numbers/)
 * I had about 10 posts after importing some stuff from MT.
    Now when I create a
   new post, with the last post being #10, the next post is #102… …/index.php?p=
   102 where logically it should be …/index.php?p=11 I did login to MySQL and change
   the author to all the same person – but did I do something to screw up the post
   numbering? If so, how would I fix this? Thanks in advance.

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 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-numbers/#post-43963)
 * actually post number does not matter… the blog works fine anyways…
    you should
   consider shifting to Smart URIs using apache redirects. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Sandman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandman/)
 * (@sandman)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-numbers/#post-44191)
 * How would I go about doing that?
    Thanks.
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-numbers/#post-44192)
 * there is an option named permalinks…
    check in the backend.
 *  [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/)
 * (@cena)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-numbers/#post-44193)
 * The permalinks option will create a set of ‘rewrite rules’ that have to be cut
   and pasted into a file you create called .htaccess. Put this file in your root
   WP folder and whammo, smart URIs. 🙂
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-numbers/#post-44199)
 * provided ur host is not EVIL. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Sandman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandman/)
 * (@sandman)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-numbers/#post-44224)
 * Wow, you’ve got me confused!!
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-numbers/#post-44240)
 * Login to wordpress,
    Click on Options Click on Permalinks Then once you are there,
   decide what kind of permalinks(permanent links) you want, instead of the ?p=2835r9
   kind. Then you will get a piece of code at the bottom of the page, which you 
   have to include in your .htaccess file. Simple 🙂
 *  [MathiasBynens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathiasbynens/)
 * (@mathiasbynens)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-numbers/#post-44591)
 * `ALTER TABLE wp_posts auto_increment = 0;`
    I’d like to know if there’s a way
   to have the “real” post number of a certain post displayed (not the `post_id`)
   by the way… Is there?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 8 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [MathiasBynens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathiasbynens/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-numbers/#post-44591)
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