Title: Cannot edit post permalinks
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Cannot edit post permalinks

 *  Resolved [michpalmer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michpalmer/)
 * (@michpalmer)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-post-permalinks/)
 * I haphazardly attempted to change my permalink settings and copied my site url
   into the custom permalinks slot. Now when I access my admin panel, I view my 
   posts but I can no longer edit the permalinks page because the edit button has
   disappeared.
 * Snapshot:
    [http://tinyurl.com/3lldf3h](http://tinyurl.com/3lldf3h) I can open
   my site’s mainpage but clicking on any post will lead to a broken link.
 * Creating a new post does not allow me to change the permalinks page since the
   same url appears without an edit button.
 * I spent some time googling this issue and came to the permalinks codex site and
   it says: “You never, ever put your site url in the permalinks slot. You must 
   use one of the structure tags, or a combination of tags only. “
 * So I messed up. But after a lot of forum searching I haven’t found a direct solution
   to this problem.
 * Any advice on how to revert my post permalinks to the standard setting?

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 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-post-permalinks/#post-2254273)
 * a) try this first.
 * Login at yoursite.com/wp-admin
    Manually navigate to yoursite.com/wp-admin/options.
   php Look for “permalink_structure” Set to something that works, scroll to bottom,
   save changes, cross fingers.
 * b) restore your database from the last backup
 *  Thread Starter [michpalmer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michpalmer/)
 * (@michpalmer)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-post-permalinks/#post-2254278)
 * “A)” worked like a charm. You are a lifesaver thank you! I’m new to using wordpress
   so I was completely unaware of options.php
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-post-permalinks/#post-2254280)
 * It worked? Well, I’ll be darned. I’m as surprised as you are…
 * Just kidding!! 🙂
 * Glad it got you going!
 *  Thread Starter [michpalmer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michpalmer/)
 * (@michpalmer)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-post-permalinks/#post-2254315)
 * You are the man! Thanks again!!

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## Tags

 * [edit button](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/edit-button/)
 * [edit permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/edit-permalink/)
 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [michpalmer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michpalmer/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-post-permalinks/#post-2254315)
 * Status: resolved

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