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  earlgreyocean · Member · Aug 18, 2022 at 5:49 am

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  I keep seeing online help articles that tell me to go to ‘Settings > Permalinks’ but no such ‘Permalinks’ option is available in my settings menu.

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  staartmees · Member · Aug 18, 2022 at 6:11 am

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  As stated in our own wordpress.com documentation, you can’t change the permalinks on the Free Plan, https://wordpress.com/support/permalinks-and-slugs/#changing-the-permalink-structure

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  earlgreyocean · Member · Aug 18, 2022 at 6:27 am

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  That page describes that: “By default, WordPress uses post URLs that have the date and name in them.”

  That’s actually what I want. But weirdly for some reason, my Gutenberg editor page is showing permalinks for all new posts in the/?p=XXXX type structure.

  Actually I just tried a test post anyway, and it kept the date/name formatting! I can’t understand why it would appear like that in the editor, even during the publish confirmation, but the actual post is correct. Odd.

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  justjennifer · Member · Aug 18, 2022 at 8:56 am

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  Hi there, The Editor will only change to the full pretty permalink once the Post or Page has been published. That odd URL you see is the Post ID # in the database.

  If you are looking to change the Post or Page slug, you can click on that odd URL and a window will open where you can change it. (temp screenshot) What you’ll see there is the title of the Post or Page and if it is a post, today’s date.

  Hope that helps, but post back here if you have any other question about this.

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  earlgreyocean · Member · Aug 18, 2022 at 2:20 pm

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  Ah I see in your screenshot that it’s the same for you too. Thank you for the clarification!