Title: [Plugin: Polylang] Permalinks not working
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Polylang] Permalinks not working

 *  [rocco42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocco42/)
 * (@rocco42)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-permalinks-not-working/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’m trying to migrate my blog from WPML to Polylang 0.5.1 with WP 3.3.
    The blog
   is bilingual, and the permalink format of the links is English: domain//2011/
   12/22/sample-post/ Hungarian: domain/hu/2011/12/22/sample-post/
 * With WP Permalinks set to Day and Name, Polylang Settings for pretty permalinks
   don’t change the URL. I thought choosing
    Remove /language/ in pretty permalinks
   and Hide URL language information for default language would result in the permalink
   structure I needed, but either I don’t do something right or I misunderstood 
   how it’s supposed to work. Could you help me with this?
 * Thanks
    Balazs
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polylang/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polylang/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * (@chouby)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-permalinks-not-working/#post-2465729)
 * It seems that you did everything right. But Polylang does not implement things
   the same way WPML does. The language information is added only when it is needed.
   As it is not needed for posts or pages, you get:
    English: domain/2011/12/22/
   sample-post-in-english/ Hungarian: domain/2011/12/22/sample-post-in-hungarian/
 * The language information is needed for archives. So you get:
    English: domain/
   2011/12/ Hungarian: domain/hu/2011/12/
 * It is also needed for the home page of course…
 * So in your case, if you do not want to break links, you will have to implement
   permanent redirection to make point domain/hu/2011/12/22/sample-post-in-hungarian/
   to domain/2011/12/22/sample-post-in-hungarian/
 *  Thread Starter [rocco42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocco42/)
 * (@rocco42)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-permalinks-not-working/#post-2465733)
 * OK, thanks for the answer.
    Then I’ll look into regular expressions, and try 
   to define a redirect rule that redirects all domain/hu/post links to domain/post.
 *  Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * (@chouby)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-permalinks-not-working/#post-2465734)
 * If it’s not indelicate, what decided you to switch from WPML to Polylang ?
 * Will you migrate manually or try to do things automatically playing with databases?
 *  Thread Starter [rocco42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocco42/)
 * (@rocco42)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-permalinks-not-working/#post-2465740)
 * WPML is overkill for my simple blog, and it slows it down. (still on wp3.0 with
   free wpml)
    A lightweight solution like Polylang sounds much better. I’ve installed
   wp3.3 with polylang on localhost with wamp, and now I wanna see if I can set 
   up the blog the way I want it.
 *  Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * (@chouby)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-permalinks-not-working/#post-2465743)
 * OK. I guess that you already know, but just in case, take care that polylang 
   does not work at all on WP 3.0. So you will be obliged to update WP before installing
   Polylang, which will breaks the free WPML.

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 * Last reply from: [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-permalinks-not-working/#post-2465743)
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