Title: hard-coded strings in permalinks?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# hard-coded strings in permalinks?

 *  [nttaylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nttaylor/)
 * (@nttaylor)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-coded-strings-in-permalinks/)
 * My boss wants to hard code her name into the URLs of her blog, so the url for
   the “about” page would be something like:
 * [http://www.somedomain.com/wordpress-2.8.4/wordpress/BOSS_NAME/about](http://www.somedomain.com/wordpress-2.8.4/wordpress/BOSS_NAME/about)
 * I’ve fooled around with the permalinks area of the control panel, but so far 
   it seems that if I put BOSS_NAME into the permalink and then try to go to the
   URL above, a redirect happens so that BOSS_NAME is eliminated and I’m left with
   just:
 * [http://www.somedomain.com/wordpress-2.8.4/wordpress/about](http://www.somedomain.com/wordpress-2.8.4/wordpress/about)
 * All the examples of permalinks I’ve found only use combinations of %tags% – I’ve
   never found one with a hard-coded string. Is that just not done? Am I doing something
   wrong? Is there any way to get the behavior I’m describing?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-coded-strings-in-permalinks/#post-1254719)
 * the only way I know to do it is make Boss an author and use
    `%author%` in the
   permalinks [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Choosing_your_permalink_structure](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Choosing_your_permalink_structure)

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-coded-strings-in-permalinks/#post-1254719)
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