Title: Using permalinks for Pages Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Using permalinks for Pages * [markrosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrosa/) * (@markrosa) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-permalinks-for-pages/) * Hi, * Just installed wordpress and read the bit on permalinks. * My website will only have 3 pages (no posts). I’d like to make a static link for each page like: * [http://www.mysite.com/about](http://www.mysite.com/about) [http://www.mysite.com/orange](http://www.mysite.com/orange) [http://www.mysite.com/red](http://www.mysite.com/red) * Is that possible for pages? Do I just use the %postname% variable for the permalinks and that’s it? Will that really hurt performance? I will have several thousand hits per day. * Thanks Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/) * (@thisisedie) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-permalinks-for-pages/#post-1000755) * Set the permalinks to either day and name or month and name (even though there won’t be posts) to avoid problems and the pages will appear as whatever you name the page… IE about, orange, red. * Thread Starter [markrosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrosa/) * (@markrosa) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-permalinks-for-pages/#post-1000770) * Hi thisisedie, * If I use day+name, or month+name, I’m just worried it will look a bit silly, like: * [http://www.mysite.com/2/orange/](http://www.mysite.com/2/orange/) * people will be wondering what the 2 is about? What’s the danger if I just use the postname, will wordpress really blow up from that? * Thanks * [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/) * (@thisisedie) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-permalinks-for-pages/#post-1000772) * It won’t be [http://www.mysite.com/2/orange/](http://www.mysite.com/2/orange/) it’ll be [http://www.mysite.com/orange/](http://www.mysite.com/orange/) * [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/) * (@thisisedie) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-permalinks-for-pages/#post-1000774) * Off the top of my head I can’t think of any specific problems just using /%postname%/ would cause but it’s not a good idea. Seriously, just try what I told you. It will render pages as whatever.com/pagename * Thread Starter [markrosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrosa/) * (@markrosa) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-permalinks-for-pages/#post-1000781) * Oh shoot sorry I misunderstood you, I thought the number would appear in the URL then – * ok I’ll give it a shot, thank you. * Thread Starter [markrosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrosa/) * (@markrosa) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-permalinks-for-pages/#post-1000784) * Ok yes that worked. For some reason the permalink for the test page stopped working, so mysite/orange just displays a blank page with contents: * * any new pages I add work fine. If i delete page “orange” from the page editor, then try to add it as a new page again, same behavior. That name must be stuck in the database somehow, I’ll see if I can get into trouble now fiddling around in there. * Thanks * Thread Starter [markrosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrosa/) * (@markrosa) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-permalinks-for-pages/#post-1000791) * Whoa is “Gallery” a reserved name in wordpress? * I completely uninstalled wordpress, have a brand new installation. Put permalinks to day+name. Created a new page called “Gallery”. I see the link on the front page, click on it, blank page comes up. Only contents are: * * Any permalink type (except default) gives me a blank html output for a page named“ Gallery”. What am I missing? Surely there’s not an if statement in the source like: * if (pageName == “Gallery”) { print(“\n”); return; } * Thanks Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Using permalinks for Pages’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [pages](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pages/) * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [markrosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrosa/) * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-permalinks-for-pages/#post-1000791) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics