# 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")\
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**Author:** ![winterbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/6de8d8/32.png) [@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")

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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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