# Choose URL structure in admin/site\_settings
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/choose-url-structure-in-admin-site-settings/23847
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 10, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/choose-url-structure-in-admin-site-settings/23847 "2015-01-10T14:41:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@winterbox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/winterbox)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/choose-url-structure-in-admin-site-settings/23847/1 "2015-01-10T14:41:30Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Disabling English slugfier for topic’s URL in Korean language setting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-english-slugfier-for-topics-url-in-korean-language-setting/23780/10):
> [@Disabling English slugfier for topic's URL in Korean language setting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-english-slugfier-for-topics-url-in-korean-language-setting/23780/10):
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> Actually, some guys appeal to add control over this in Chinese communities. However, I don’t care this. Most Chinese users won’t notice the slug. I may wrong.
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> Slug may be helpful for SEO, or not. At least, the default `topic` is sufficient. Now I am open to your proposal about options here. But the options should be a site setting. @winterbox Can you open a feature for this option to help me track this proposal.
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> > [@Disabling English slugfier for topic's URL in Korean language setting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-english-slugfier-for-topics-url-in-korean-language-setting/23780/7):
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> > Old browsers don’t support this but I guess you could opt in .
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> [zh.wikipedia.org](http://zh.wikipedia.org) use Unicode as url since its start at 2002.
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> > [@Disabling English slugfier for topic's URL in Korean language setting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-english-slugfier-for-topics-url-in-korean-language-setting/23780/6):
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> > [http://example.com/안녕하세요-여러분](http://example.com/%EC%95%88%EB%85%95%ED%95%98%EC%84%B8%EC%9A%94-%EC%97%AC%EB%9F%AC%EB%B6%84) is a valid URL
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> Some programs can’t handle it very well, they may show a long encoded string when pasted some url into them which looks bad. Leave a site setting to change is ok.
Everyone has their own preference on URL structures:
- `/topic/###`
- `/discourse-is-awesome`
- `/반갑습니다-여러분`
- `/您好`
- or possibly `transliteration`
Some might prefer just English letters & numbers combination even they use their own languages.
If Discourse allows admins can choose the URL structure, it would be very useful.
Like Wordpress’ ‘Permalink Settings’: [Customize permalinks – Documentation – WordPress.org](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
[http://codex.wordpress.org/images/a/ad/permalink-settings.png](http://codex.wordpress.org/images/a/ad/permalink-settings.png)
To me, `/t/topic/###` is just OK, but maybe there are people who want to use other structure types in my country. Also, giving options seems better, so I create this topic.
@fantasticfears would you add details or feedback?
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### Author:  [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/choose-url-structure-in-admin-site-settings/23847/2 "2015-01-10T15:12:33Z")
> [@Disabling English slugfier for topic's URL in Korean language setting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-english-slugfier-for-topics-url-in-korean-language-setting/23780/6):
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> [zh.wikipedia.org](http://zh.wikipedia.org) use Unicode as url since its start at 2002.
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> > [@Disabling English slugfier for topic's URL in Korean language setting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-english-slugfier-for-topics-url-in-korean-language-setting/23780/6):
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> > [http://example.com/안녕하세요-여러분](http://example.com/%EC%95%88%EB%85%95%ED%95%98%EC%84%B8%EC%9A%94-%EC%97%AC%EB%9F%AC%EB%B6%84) is a valid URL
(PS: This quote is broken…)
> [@winterbox](#):
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> To me, /t/topic/### is just OK, but maybe there are people who want to use other structure types in my country. Also, giving options seems better, so I create this topic.
Thanks to some heavy route logic, it’s not that easy and necessary to implement custom url structure.
I would insist on `/t/:topic_slug/:topic_id` URL structure. There are some custom options applies to `:topic_slug`, which convert as:
- default: anything to `topic`
- english: `Discourse 测试` to `discourse`(current behaviour)
- same as title: `반갑습니다-여러분` to `반갑습니다-여러분`
Does that make sense to you?
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### Author:  [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/choose-url-structure-in-admin-site-settings/23847/3 "2015-01-10T15:18:13Z")
I think I misunderstood your idea…Did you want to customize all topic’s slug? I don’t like this idea since it confuses people when they saw it.
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### Author:  [@winterbox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/winterbox)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/choose-url-structure-in-admin-site-settings/23847/4 "2015-01-10T15:18:48Z")
> [@fantasticfears](#):
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> - same as title: 반갑습니다-여러분 to 반갑습니다-여러분
Does ‘same as title’ mean: `안녕하세요-discourse` to `안녕하세요-discourse`? (`English + Non-English` to `English + Non-English`)
> [@fantasticfears](#):
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> Did you want to customize all topic’s slug?
What do you mean? Choose slug type whenever they create topics???
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### Author:  [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/choose-url-structure-in-admin-site-settings/23847/5 "2015-01-10T15:19:43Z")
> [@winterbox](#):
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> Does ‘same as title’ mean: 안녕하세요-discourse to 안녕하세요-discourse? (English + Non-English to English + Non-English)
Yes. Only sanitized some symbol cannot be used as URL.
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### Author:  [@winterbox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/winterbox)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/choose-url-structure-in-admin-site-settings/23847/6 "2015-01-10T15:23:27Z")
> [@fantasticfears](#):
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> Yes. Only sanitized some symbol cannot be used as URL.
And ‘English’ means : cutting out non-English letters. Right? Then I love your options.
But I don’t understand what you mean here:
> [@fantasticfears](#):
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> I think I misunderstood your idea…Did you want to customize all topic’s slug?
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### Author:  [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/choose-url-structure-in-admin-site-settings/23847/7 "2015-01-10T15:46:06Z")
> [@winterbox](#):
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> And ‘English’ means : cutting out non-English letters. Right? Then I love your options.
It’s the **current behaviour**. When you mix CJK characters, english letters and numbers, the Discourse strips CJK characters.
> [@winterbox](#):
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> I think I misunderstood your idea…Did you want to customize all topic’s slug?
I mean did you want some mechanism to set the topic’s url like category slug you proposaled days ago?
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### Author:  [@winterbox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/winterbox)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/choose-url-structure-in-admin-site-settings/23847/8 "2015-01-10T15:51:18Z")
> [@fantasticfears](#):
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> It’s the current behaviour.
Yes. Including the current behavior, I love your options(Default, English, Same as title) for :topic\_slug.
> [@fantasticfears](#):
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> I mean did you want some mechanism to set the topic’s url like category slug you proposaled days ago?
No. I don’t want to customize all the URLs topic by topic. (I don’t like it either.)
What I want is:
1. Admin choose URL structure for topic in site setting.
2. Then all the new topics start to be generated with the URL logic Admin chose.
Is it clear now? 😉
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/choose-url-structure-in-admin-site-settings/23847/9 "2015-01-10T23:14:03Z")
I don’t think this request makes sense.. what is really being asked for is control over whether the slug is ASCII or not, or even a custom slug.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/choose-url-structure-in-admin-site-settings/23847/10 "2025-12-04T11:33:27Z")