Title: Permalinks have changed
Last modified: February 6, 2018

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# Permalinks have changed

 *  [psalatrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psalatrik/)
 * (@psalatrik)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-have-changed-2/)
 * Greetings,
    We have recently had a very serious issue with our blog’s permalinks.
   They have somehow reverted back to the full page title URL. Almost all of our
   blogs have long titles and have been altered to remove the ‘stop words’ from 
   the permalinks. Yesterday we noticed that all the links have changed to the full
   versions. We are at a loss. It’s affected several hundred posts and we have broken
   links everywhere. Please advise. Thanks.
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by [psalatrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psalatrik/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fpermalinks-have-changed-2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Jacob Peattie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakept/)
 * (@jakept)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-have-changed-2/#post-9931115)
 * WordPress can’t remove ‘stop words’ on its own. You would’ve been using a plugin
   for this. I would contact its developers with your issue.
 * It doesn’t make any sense for hundreds of URLs to have changed at once. The only
   way this could happen is if all the posts were edited and saved with a new slug.
   The slug is stored in the database so it really shouldn’t be possible to change
   them all suddenly like that without intent.
 * The only other possibility I can thing of is that whatever plugin you were using
   wasn’t removing the stop words when the post was saved, but was doing it dynamically
   on every request somehow, and now that filtering has stopped. This seems like
   a really dumb way to go about this functionality though. Regardless, you’ll need
   to contact the developer of the responsible plugin to determine the cause.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by [Jacob Peattie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakept/).
 *  Thread Starter [psalatrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psalatrik/)
 * (@psalatrik)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-have-changed-2/#post-9936978)
 * I just wanted to follow up. I have not heard back from Yoast. Even if we go back
   and change the permalinks they revert back to the full URL on their own. Any 
   ideas?
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by [psalatrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psalatrik/).
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-have-changed-2/#post-9943703)
 * [@psalatrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psalatrik/) Please do not create
   duplicate topics, your new one has been archives.
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/guidelines/#post-in-the-best-place](https://wordpress.org/support/guidelines/#post-in-the-best-place)
 * Also don’t use Everything WordPress for Fixing WordPress or plugin issues. This
   was moved to Fixing WordPress but your question really is for Yoast’s plugin.
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-words-have-come-back/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-words-have-come-back/)
 * Continue that topic there if you’ve something new to add.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-have-changed-2/#post-9943703)
 * Status: not resolved

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