Title: Question about terminating permalinks
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Question about terminating permalinks

 *  [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-terminating-permalinks/)
 * So I’m understanding it would be a bad idea to use [http://www.mysite.com/%postname%/](http://www.mysite.com/%postname%/)
   for my permalinks. What’s the simplest, shortest permalink that includes the 
   post title?
 * On one of my blogs, the post-titles are actually predictable (they’re song titles).
   So it would be cool to have permalinks that you can guess, like [http://www.mysite.com/song-title-you-know/](http://www.mysite.com/song-title-you-know/)
 * Is there a way to do this safely, like by adding a non-numeric static preceeding
   word? [http://www.mysite.com/lyrics/%postname%/](http://www.mysite.com/lyrics/%postname%/)
   would be okay?
 * I have read the Codex
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 * `Note on using only %postname% 
    If you use postname as the only element in your
   permalinks to create a structure such as myblog.com/post-title, the rewrite rules
   may make it impossible to access pages such as your stylesheet (which has a similar
   format) or the wp-admin folder. It's best to include some numeric data (e.g. 
   the post ID or date) in the permalink to prevent this from happening.
 * but still not sure if I can use /word/%postname%/

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 *  [ifelse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ifelse/)
 * (@ifelse)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-terminating-permalinks/#post-279719)
 * > “but still not sure if I can use /word/%postname%/
 * That should work fine and it’ll sidestep all the above mentioned issues. The 
   static keyword in this case faciliates the same goal as the numeric identifiers.
 *  Thread Starter [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-terminating-permalinks/#post-279783)
 * Thank you ifelse. Very helpful. I tried it, and it’s working so far.
 * I would add this to the Codex if I can figure out how to post in it.
 * This method seems a lot closer to the REASON for permalinks, right? To make your
   links readable, even predictable so it can be typed from memory? Seems better
   to me.

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