Title: Permalink trouble
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink trouble

 *  [liammck27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liammck27/)
 * (@liammck27)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-trouble-9/)
 * Hi, was hoping someone would be able to help.
 * Bit of a WordPress newbie but loving it so far and I’ve tried to look this up
   as much as poss before posting so please do bear with me.
 * I’ve recently created a portfolio-style site at liammckinnon.com using the theme
   Portfolium by WPShower. Really good theme, but I’m having a little trouble with
   the permalinks.
 * The theme generates a homepage which uses thumbnail images to link to a number
   of portfolio pages. These portfolio pages are different to standard WordPress
   pages and it seems to be affecting the permalink structure. The portfolio page
   permalinks go like this: [http://liammckinnon.com/?portfolio=nameofwork](http://liammckinnon.com/?portfolio=nameofwork).
   I am fine with the way these urls read, it’s tidy enough.
 * However, I also have a couple of standard pages in my header navigation, such
   as a ‘contact’ page and my blog page. These are NOT portfolio pages, they are
   standard pages. (I hope I am explaining this ok…)
 * I would like these contact and blog pages to have clean and tidy permalinks, 
   for example liammckinnon.com/blog and liammckinnon.com/contact. However, I have
   tried every permalink structure option that WordPress provides, and anything 
   that does generate a tidy permalink (/contact or /blog) messes up my portfolio
   pages (ie changes them to the same structure and hence gives a 404 page).
 * I guess what I’m trying to do, is create a permalink rule which will tidy up 
   my contact and blog pages (standard pages), but won’t affect my portfolio pages.
   You will see what I mean once you’ve seen the site.
 * I feel that the coding for this may be a bit beyond me, so if anyone knows a 
   way I can tidy up my page urls without affecting the portfolio pages, I’d be 
   massively grateful.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [quantumtraveler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quantumtraveler/)
 * (@quantumtraveler)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-trouble-9/#post-1999712)
 * Hi I’m having the exact same issue. Did you find a fix? I’m having sleepless 
   nights over this. Regards.
 *  [bolide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bolide-1/)
 * (@bolide-1)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-trouble-9/#post-1999717)
 * You can use the Redirection plugin to rewrite one URL with another. It’s easy
   to setup
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/)
 * Nick Froome

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 * Last reply from: [bolide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bolide-1/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-trouble-9/#post-1999717)
 * Status: not resolved

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