Title: Permalink Settings
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Permalink Settings

 *  [jonnyjericho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonnyjericho/)
 * (@jonnyjericho)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-25/)
 * Hello,
 * When I change my Permalink Settings in Dashboard:
 * 1.) My settings have always been to “post name” For example, my home page used
   to be rsoldiers.com/home and my blog was rsoldiers.com/blog respectively.
 * 2.) Now for some reason when I type in those URL’s, I get this instead:
 * *Typing: rsoldiers.com/home gets a 404 page not found error.
    The actual home
   page URL is as follows ([https://rsoldiers.com/?v=7516fd43adaa](https://rsoldiers.com/?v=7516fd43adaa))
 * blog URL is now: ([https://rsoldiers.com/blog/?v=7516fd43adaa](https://rsoldiers.com/blog/?v=7516fd43adaa))
 * 3.) I’d like to know how to remove the: ?v=7516fd43adaa and revert everything
   back to the way it should be.
 * Any clever solution will work for me. I’m a newbie, and thank you in advance 
   for any help and insights you can offer me.
 * Thank you,
 * Jonny
 * p.s. I have read the “Using Permalinks” documentation in WordPress. I am still
   unable to decipher my predicament.

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 *  [SJW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitsey/)
 * (@whitsey)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-25/#post-7693558)
 * The appended ?v=7516fd43adaa is not a permalinks addition.
    You must have some
   other plugin or function adding this onto the URL.
 * Effectively with a URL, everything after a ? is the query string – it is used
   to pass variables into a page. The page name/URL is the still same but some plugin
   appears to be adding a query string.
 * Look in the source => View Source – you will see that your URL’s are fine – there
   is something adding the query string after the page is rendered (it will be something
   using jQuery)
 *  Thread Starter [jonnyjericho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonnyjericho/)
 * (@jonnyjericho)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-25/#post-7693611)
 * Thank you Shannon! I really appreciate your response.
 * Can anyone else expand on possible solutions? Is there an easy way to remove 
   the query string without harming the URL?
 *  [SJW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitsey/)
 * (@whitsey)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-25/#post-7693636)
 * A quick google: [https://bradgriffin.me/v7516fd43adaa/](https://bradgriffin.me/v7516fd43adaa/)

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 * [404 page error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/404-page-error/)
 * [permalink settings](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink-settings/)
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 * Last reply from: [SJW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitsey/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-25/#post-7693636)
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