Title: %postname% – max. length? Permalink question Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # %postname% – max. length? Permalink question * [arthurdent2003](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arthurdent2003/) * (@arthurdent2003) * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postname-max-length-permalink-question/) * Hi there, * I have built a small portal where users can submit posts. The content comes from the post titles (250 signs limit). I have set the permalinkstructure to “%postname%”– but this setting gives too long urls back. I sthere a way to automatically shorten the “%postname%” urls to a maximium of e.g. 40 signs in URLs? * thanks! * AD Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * [70074512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/70074512-1/) * (@70074512-1) * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postname-max-length-permalink-question/#post-2379327) * please let me know if you find any solution… If the url is for example: [http://www.coolestech.com/something-isnt-necessary-or-long-is-here](http://www.coolestech.com/something-isnt-necessary-or-long-is-here) to change to [http://www.coolestech.com/something-isnt-neces](http://www.coolestech.com/something-isnt-neces) * I want to cut the extra length… Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘%postname% – max. length? Permalink question’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/) * [shorten](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shorten/) * [urls](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/urls/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 1 reply * 2 participants * Last reply from: [70074512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/70074512-1/) * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postname-max-length-permalink-question/#post-2379327) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics