Title: Falcon Engine Permalink Error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Falcon Engine Permalink Error

 *  Resolved [Psychopig7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psychopig7/)
 * (@psychopig7)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/falcon-engine-permalink-error/)
 * Hi
    I have been using Wordfence for a while now and really like it, however, 
   I just updated it and now get the option to run Falcon Engine. This looks great
   too, – BUT – when I select falcon engine (50 times faster) I get the following
   message.
 * **An error occurred**
 * You need to enable Permalinks for your site to use Falcon Engine. You can enable
   Permalinks in WordPress by going to the Settings – Permalinks menu and enabling
   it there. Permalinks change your site URL structure from something that looks
   like /p=123 to pretty URLs like /my-new-post-today/ that are generally more search
   engine friendly.
 * This might make sense to many, but unfortunately not to me.
    Can you give a couple
   of examples of how to change my permalinks – and importantly – let me know what
   effect doing this might potentially have on my site.
 * Cheers
    Noel
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * (@mmaunder)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/falcon-engine-permalink-error/#post-4785874)
 * Hi Noel,
 * Yes unfortunately you need to run permalinks to get support for falcon. I would
   google around because there are plenty of guides on what they are and the advantages
   in terms of search engine ranking that they provide.
 * Regards,
 * Mark.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/falcon-engine-permalink-error/#post-4785874)
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