Title: Another menu naming question…
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Another menu naming question…

 *  Resolved [viraltech13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viraltech13/)
 * (@viraltech13)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-menu-naming-question/)
 * Like many others, I’m trying to figure out how to rename my permalinks. As I 
   understand it, it should be as easy as using the /%postname%/ permalink naming
   convention and then changing a page’s slug accordingly. However, this doesn’t
   seem to be working, and I’m wondering why.
 * For example, I have an “about us” page on my site which of course defaults to
   the name myurl.com/?page_id=16. Obviously, I want this to read “myurl.com/about-
   us” for SEO purposes, amongst others, so I…
    1. changed the slug of the about
   us page to “about-us”; 2. changed the permalinks setting to “custom” with “/%
   postname%/” in the field; 3. verified that the permalink has been set to “myurl.
   com/about-us” in the about us page edit section.
 * Now when I click on the link for “about us,” the browser tries to go to myurl.
   com/about-us but I get a “not found” error. As far as I can tell I’ve done everything
   correctly – can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong? Any help would be greatly
   appreciated…

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 *  Thread Starter [viraltech13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viraltech13/)
 * (@viraltech13)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-menu-naming-question/#post-2248846)
 * Bump! Anyone?
 *  [CircaDesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/circadesigns/)
 * (@circadesigns)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-menu-naming-question/#post-2248849)
 * I’m by no means an expert, just a couple of things to try till someone more knowledgeable
   than me comes along. From what you described you did, the permalinks should work.
   Did you click the “Update” button? Obvious, I know, but I forget to do that sometimes.
 * Another thing you can try is manually type in the “myurl.com/about-us”, instead
   of using the link, to see if the page is actually there.
 *  Thread Starter [viraltech13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viraltech13/)
 * (@viraltech13)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-menu-naming-question/#post-2248852)
 * Hi CD, thanks a lot for the feedback – as it turns out, I figured out the issue
   as you were responding. My setup was correct, but the reason it wasn’t working
   is that there was a conflict with a directory setting in my httpd.conf file. 
   Once I sorted that out, I was golden.
 * Thanks again for the response!

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-menu-naming-question/#post-2248852)
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