Title: Stop Permalinks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Stop Permalinks

 *  [thedooropens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thedooropens/)
 * (@thedooropens)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-permalinks/)
 * Hello,
 * I have installed WP as a CMS. On the main page it shows last 5 full-posts as 
   a news section. I don;t want any single posts pages or permalinks.
 * Is there a way to do this? – I feel like I should be able to just turn them off…
   but it seems not

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 *  [msdana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msdana/)
 * (@msdana)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-permalinks/#post-1111325)
 * I believe for this you would need to remove the permalink reference in your index.
   php file.
 * Example of default theme index.php file referencing the permalink:
 *     ```
       <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
       ```
   
 * Remove the anchor:
 *     ```
       <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [thedooropens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thedooropens/)
 * (@thedooropens)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-permalinks/#post-1111348)
 * Thanks – I did that already, but I can confirm single posts are still getting
   indexed. At least the H2 doesnt link to them anymore!
 *  [msdana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msdana/)
 * (@msdana)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-permalinks/#post-1111408)
 * You mean you don’t want the single pages to show up in search engines?
 * You could add the following to your robots.txt file, if you have one (or create
   one):
 *     ```
       User-Agent: *
       Disallow: /FILE-NAME-HERE
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [thedooropens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thedooropens/)
 * (@thedooropens)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-permalinks/#post-1111412)
 * I’m not too good on the php side of things. Will disallowing the single.php file
   block all single posts from getting indexed? That doesn’t seem right to me!
 *  [msdana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msdana/)
 * (@msdana)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-permalinks/#post-1111414)
 * Sorry if I wasn’t clear. For each post, you need to disallow indexing.
 *     ```
       User-Agent: *
       Disallow: /your_post_file_name_here
       ```
   
 * Perhaps someone else will come along and explain this better. I’ve never encountered
   this exact scenario before (i.e. not wanting single posts to show or be indexed).
 *  Thread Starter [thedooropens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thedooropens/)
 * (@thedooropens)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-permalinks/#post-1111416)
 * Yes it seems to be hard to find a fix! Should be a button to turn them off, but
   I’m no programmer, maybe it’s complex. Thanks for the suggestion.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [thedooropens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thedooropens/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-permalinks/#post-1111416)
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