Title: Changing permalink url structure
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Changing permalink url structure

 *  [slideaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modsuperstar/)
 * (@modsuperstar)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalink-url-structure/)
 * I’m porting my blog from Pivot to WordPress and noted a little snag in things.
   The permalinks on wordpress use hyphens instead of underscores (ex: whatever.
   com/recent-blog-post instead of whatever.com/recent_blog_post) Since I have over
   1000 blog posts and fairly good search engine rankings I want to sort this out.
   How would I go about customizing that since I didn’t see any configurations in
   the permalinks admin and my mucking with htaccess just resulted in 500 errors
   from the server.

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 *  Thread Starter [slideaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modsuperstar/)
 * (@modsuperstar)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalink-url-structure/#post-957003)
 * No one able to offer any insight on this one?
 *  Thread Starter [slideaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modsuperstar/)
 * (@modsuperstar)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalink-url-structure/#post-957004)
 * I found this article that pertains to this issue, but I don’t know how I would
   go about executing an SQL query as it mentions.
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/149288](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/149288)
 * Do I have to do this through my host (dreamhost), or can I do this through WordPress.
   I know little to nothing about how to use SQL.

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