# Can an Admin editing URLs?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [June 25, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078 "2017-06-25T01:34:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Muiran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/muiran/32/73797_2.png) [@Muiran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Muiran)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078/1 "2017-06-25T01:34:01Z")

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How do I edit the url of an existing post or define a url before a post is published?

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**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078/2 "2017-06-25T01:43:48Z")

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Not within Discourse. The URL is defined automatically/dynamically, and will always be: `http(s)://yourdomainhere.tld/t/topic-title-here/topic-id-here`

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**Author:** ![Muiran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/muiran/32/73797_2.png) [@Muiran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Muiran)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078/3 "2017-06-25T01:46:03Z")

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How deep is that logic, can it be modified without breaking the instance?

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**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078/4 "2017-06-25T01:47:48Z")

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I’m honestly not 100% sure. Educated guess, it would be incredibly complicated to write a plugin that would modify the URL logic.

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**Author:** ![Muiran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/muiran/32/73797_2.png) [@Muiran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Muiran)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078/5 "2017-06-25T01:50:14Z")

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Admins can do that in WodPress, so I was hoping that Admins in Discourse could as well.

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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078/6 "2017-06-25T01:54:04Z")

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Actually, the topic title in the URL doesn’t matter. You can put any text there. Only the topic id matters.

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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078/7 "2017-06-25T01:54:27Z")

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What are you trying to accomplish?

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**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078/8 "2017-06-25T01:55:17Z")

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True, but putting [Can an Admin editing URLs?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/this_is_a_fake_title/65078) into the address bar will automatically resolve (and be displayed as) [Can an Admin editing URLs?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078).

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**Author:** ![Muiran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/muiran/32/73797_2.png) [@Muiran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Muiran)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078/9 "2017-06-25T01:55:53Z")

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Easy to remember urls for groups

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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-editing-urls/65078/10 "2017-06-25T02:33:53Z")

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Check out permalink in customizations.