Title: Custom permalinks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom permalinks

 *  [Alex Sancho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexsancho/)
 * (@alexsancho)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalinks-6/)
 * Hi all,
 * my problem with permalinks is that I want to migrate an existing site and don’t
   want to loose current ones. Currently the site is using url’s like this ones:
 * [http://domain.tld/archives/category_name](http://domain.tld/archives/category_name)
   
   [http://domain.tld/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/](http://domain.tld/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/)
 * I’ve played with wordpress permalinks settings with no luck, the category permalinks
   works, but any other permalink returns a 404 error.
 * Any help to resolve this.
 * Thanks in advance

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 *  [Milan Dinić](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimadin/)
 * (@dimadin)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalinks-6/#post-1222978)
 * Maybe [this](http://www.microkid.net/wordpress/permalinks-moved-permanently/)
   is what you want?
 *  Thread Starter [Alex Sancho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexsancho/)
 * (@alexsancho)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalinks-6/#post-1223037)
 * Thanks for the resource, i’ve modified it a bit for my needs and works really
   well.
 * I’m only wishes wordpress handled permalinks in a less restrictive way like others
   publishing plataforms i’ve used.
 * thanks again
 *  [sonyadark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sonyadark/)
 * (@sonyadark)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalinks-6/#post-1223218)
 * Hi everyone, I was just wondering if anyone would know how to get rid of category
   out of the link name all together for seo reasons. ex: I have a nav bar where
   categories are listed and when I put in /%postname%? in the permalinks these 
   show up as [http://focusedonprosperity.com/category/personal-development/](http://focusedonprosperity.com/category/personal-development/)
   ect. I want to keep my nav bar but just wondered is it possible to change these
   links so they just go to [http://www.focusedonprosperity.com/personal-development](http://www.focusedonprosperity.com/personal-development)
   and have posts listed on this page.
 * Not sure if I am making sense at all, hard to explain.
 * Thanks
 * Sonya
 *  [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * (@shane-g)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalinks-6/#post-1223219)
 * Hi,
 * Check with this article:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 * Also check with this plugin:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-permalinks/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-permalinks/)
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.

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 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalinks-6/#post-1223219)
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