# Changing discourse route

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-discourse-route/40844
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 10, 2016, 9:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-discourse-route/40844 "2016-03-10T09:49:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Steve\_Ng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Steve\_Ng](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steve_Ng)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2016, 9:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-discourse-route/40844/1 "2016-03-10T09:49:51Z")

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Hi,

By default /latest goes to the latest discussion forum.

Is there any chance that I could set /discussions and it goes to /latest route too?

Regards,  
Steve

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2016, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-discourse-route/40844/2 "2016-03-10T10:25:52Z")

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Well you can easily add a permalink using admin → customize → permalinks

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### Author: ![Steve\_Ng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Steve\_Ng](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steve_Ng)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-discourse-route/40844/3 "2016-03-11T01:10:46Z")

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Hi Sam, is there anyway to do it via plugin? or through code?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-discourse-route/40844/4 "2016-03-11T02:45:25Z")

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Yeah, you just insert rows into the table…

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### Author: ![Steve\_Ng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Steve\_Ng](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steve_Ng)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2016, 7:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-discourse-route/40844/5 "2016-03-11T07:21:41Z")

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I tried using permalinks.

when the user visits /discussions, the url on the browser changed to /latest.

Is there any chance that we can do something so that the url doesn’t change?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-discourse-route/40844/6 "2016-03-11T21:37:37Z")

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That it a very complex change that would need to be done via a plugin.

And by complex, I mean a nightmare.