Title: Custom Permalink
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Custom Permalink

 *  Resolved [someguy111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/someguy111/)
 * (@someguy111)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-1/)
 * How can I put the description of the post in the custom permalink structure?
 * Thanks

Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)

 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-1/#post-1297356)
 * Sorry to ask but why? Permalinks aren’t places for descriptions of content beyond
   the title of the page or post.
 *  Thread Starter [someguy111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/someguy111/)
 * (@someguy111)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-1/#post-1297371)
 * My descriptions are going to have another part of the title in them. It would
   help SEO wise to have this in the permalinks. Anyway, does anyone know how?
 *  [Mike Little](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelittle/)
 * (@mikelittle)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-1/#post-1297375)
 * If you enable fancy permalinks and set it to, for example, /%postname% then a
   post with a title of
    “My post title loaded with keywords” will end up with a
   permalink of [http://example.com/my-post-title-loaded-with-keywords](http://example.com/my-post-title-loaded-with-keywords)
 * Is that what you mean?
 *  Thread Starter [someguy111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/someguy111/)
 * (@someguy111)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-1/#post-1297382)
 * /%postname% is for the title of the post, but what is the %’text here’% for the
   description of the post?
 *  Thread Starter [someguy111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/someguy111/)
 * (@someguy111)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-1/#post-1297384)
 * My actual content is not going to be put in the post area, it goes in a custom
   field named “video_code”. I put part of the title of the video in the area where
   you normally type your post. I want the post area to be in my custom permalink
   structure. Is this possible? Sorry, I kind of worded it wrong before.
 * Thanks
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-1/#post-1297385)
 * There isn’t a %’text here’% option. See [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Structure_Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Structure_Tags)
   for the full list.
 *  Thread Starter [someguy111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/someguy111/)
 * (@someguy111)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-1/#post-1297389)
 * I’ve been trying the %tag% on my custom structure, but its not working. This 
   is what I put in custom structure:
    /%category%/%postname%/%tag%
 * When I publish the post, the category and title work, but the tag part shows %
   tag% on the end instead of the actual tag. What am I doing wrong?
 * Thanks
 *  [Mike Little](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelittle/)
 * (@mikelittle)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-1/#post-1297396)
 * You can’t do that (have a category and tag in the permalink at the same time).
 * Have a read through the codex page Esmi linked to.
 * Also, in my opinion, overloading your URL with a description of the post is not
   the way to ‘do SEO’ and is just as likely to be penalised by Google as to help
   your SEO.
 * [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769](http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769)
 *  Thread Starter [someguy111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/someguy111/)
 * (@someguy111)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-1/#post-1297397)
 * I just tried taking out category and leaving /%postname%/%tag% and it still didn’t
   work.
 * Thanks
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-1/#post-1297459)
 * > Also, in my opinion, overloading your URL with a description of the post is
   > not the way to ‘do SEO’ and is just as likely to be penalised by Google as 
   > to help your SEO.
 * That exactly what I was trying to get across too.

Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)

The topic ‘Custom Permalink’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [Custom Permalink Structure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-permalink-structure/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 10 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalink-1/#post-1297459)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics