Title: Permalinks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalinks

 *  [iamopensource](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iamopensource/)
 * (@iamopensource)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-83/)
 * What is the recommended method to setup Nice / Pretty URLs? I read that Permalinks
   is a big no no
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Using_only_.25postname.25](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Using_only_.25postname.25)
   Since it involves a lot of overheads. I am on Apache with mod_rewrite enabled.
 * What is the best approach for getting something like this:
    [http://example.com/category/post-name/](http://example.com/category/post-name/)
 * Regards

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 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-83/#post-1927098)
 * I use %post_id%/%postname% and my categories come out like you want.
 *  Thread Starter [iamopensource](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iamopensource/)
 * (@iamopensource)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-83/#post-1927100)
 * Roy,
    I get this when I setup the way you mentioned: [http://example.com/27/my-new-post](http://example.com/27/my-new-post)
 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-83/#post-1927103)
 * Oh sorry, I thought you wanted that and have categories in your permalink for
   categories.
    You want %category%/%postname% but that might conflict when you 
   use multiple categories for posts.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 *  Thread Starter [iamopensource](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iamopensource/)
 * (@iamopensource)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-83/#post-1927107)
 * I’m new to wordpress and already read the link you mentioned, it says
    “Starting
   Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.”
 * So if I can not use the following:
    %category%/%postname%
 * then what is the best way to implement it?
 * Regards
 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-83/#post-1927118)
 * %post_id%/%postname%
 * But you’re still not clear about what you want exactly.
 *  Thread Starter [iamopensource](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iamopensource/)
 * (@iamopensource)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-83/#post-1927120)
 * I want
    [http://example.com/category/post-name/](http://example.com/category/post-name/)
 * and I can do this from:
    wp-admin/options-permalink.php by specifying: /%category%/%
   postname%
 * Then why it is not recommended? Please read the following link:
    [http://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/](http://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/)
 * Regards

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [iamopensource](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iamopensource/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-83/#post-1927120)
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