Title: Can't edit permalinks
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Can't edit permalinks

 *  [euronash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/euronash/)
 * (@euronash)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-permalinks/)
 * Hello everyone,
 * I am moving my website from other cms to WordPress. What I am trying to do is
   change permalinks in order to reflect the old ones, the ones from the previous
   cms.
 * But, any time I try to edit permalink, I am running into a problem.
    Example:
   my old url, on old website is: domain.com/english/disover (it’s multilingual 
   website)
 * This same url on WordPress is: domain.com/discover/
 * When I try to change to the old version I cannot do it. What happens is, WordPress
   deletes “/” and changes it to: domain.com/englishdiscover
 * Why is this happening, and how can I overcome this problem?
 * Any help is greatly appreciated.
 * Regards,
    Nash

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 *  [Jonathan Goldford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jg-visual/)
 * (@jg-visual)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-permalinks/#post-3307141)
 * Hi Nash,
 * You’ll probably have to edit your permalinks settings for WordPress.
    1. Log in to WordPress.
    2. Go to Settings >> Permalinks.
    3. Choose the custom structure radio button.
    4. Type `/english/%postname%/` into the field.
    5. Click the blue “Save Changes” button.
 * Keep in mind that this will put “/english/” at the beginning of every one of 
   your URLs.
 *  [Jason Chechik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jchechik/)
 * (@jchechik)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-permalinks/#post-3307145)
 * You can also consider using a multilingual plugin to achieve the same result 
   as you had previously. The one I like to use often for the majority of my customers
   is call WPML. You can find it at WPML.org unfortunately it’s not a free plugin
   but for the price it is really feature rich and very well supported. It will 
   allow you setup multiple languages and it will automatically adjust the permalink
   structure to include the directory path for the language.
 * Hope that helps
 *  [Jonathan Goldford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jg-visual/)
 * (@jg-visual)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-permalinks/#post-3307150)
 * I also agree with [@jchechik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jchechik/).
   Great suggestion. It may be a little complicated to setup though.
 *  Thread Starter [euronash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/euronash/)
 * (@euronash)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-permalinks/#post-3307212)
 * I am using WPML plugin. For default language, which is English, my url structure
   is domain.com/whatever_category/post. But my old cms created a “folder” for each
   category… so for example, the url can look like this: domain.com/1stcategory/
   2ndcategory/post… now, I don’t have that anymore… what i have is domain.com/category_name/
   post
 * If I go ahead and edit the permalinks setting into /english/%postname%/ than 
   this will reflect the other language as well, which I don’t want.
 * Anyway, here is the link, so you can see what I am talking about => wordpress-
   24506-nenadlekan.vpsapps.net
 * Change the language in the language bar to see what I am talking about.
 * Any help is appreciated.
 * Regards,
    N.

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 * Last reply from: [euronash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/euronash/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-permalinks/#post-3307212)
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