# Custom permalink for topics?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** pr-welcome
**Created:** [June 2, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128 "2016-06-02T10:59:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@SMT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SMT)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128/1 "2016-06-02T10:59:32Z")
Hi,
I want to edit permalinks of topics created by me. Is there any way to do it in discourse? Sometimes there is a need of setting up a different title for the topic and different permalink (short).
I think the permalink of the topic should be customizable from admin panel.
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2016, 11:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128/2 "2016-06-02T11:23:22Z")
You can set up permalinks from `admin/customize/permalinks` 🙂
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### Author:  [@SMT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SMT)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2016, 11:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128/3 "2016-06-02T11:25:01Z")
Nope. They get redirected to the default permalink.
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2016, 11:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128/4 "2016-06-02T11:26:47Z")
Oh, so you don’t just want a permanently working link to a topic, but to edit the slug – the part of the title that shows up in the main URL? That isn’t possible (without a custom plugin).
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### Author:  [@Shrike](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shrike)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128/5 "2017-04-04T12:26:02Z")
Hi.
Let me to resurrect this topic.
For non-English community it’d be nice to allow editing slug links. Currently we have the option `slug generation method` with values: ascii, encoded, none. All of them are not ideal for topics with non-English titles: `none` - links are just ugly, `encoded` - nice looking in address bar but ugly in text, `ascii` - often looks strange for non-English names or even worse slugs are not created (links w/o slugs at all are created, like `/t/topic/1`).
It’d be very helpful to have an ability to edit the slug.
It’s needed at least for cases when Discourse failed to parse a title and to create a slug.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128/6 "2017-04-04T12:59:23Z")
> [@Shrike](#):
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> It’d be very helpful to have an ability to edit the slug.
On every topic? this seems like work 🗻
You can create custom permalinks to the few topics you need in the admin panel today.
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### Author:  [@Shrike](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shrike)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128/7 "2017-04-04T13:06:32Z")
> On every topic?
Well, I’d expect to see currently generated link in post editor, like one in Medium. That generated link could be edited (slightly or completely).
> You can create custom permalinks to the few topics you need in the admin panel today.
That permalinks are replaced onto original links as you open them.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128/8 "2017-04-04T13:09:10Z")
This is going to have to be done in a plugin, to explore UI etc, happy to have hooks added into core to support this in the object model.
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### Author:  [@jidetheblogger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidetheblogger)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2017, 8:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128/9 "2017-06-14T08:03:05Z")
Wondering if there is any update on this. If it can be done on blogspot platform, then it should be very easy on discourse 😉
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128/10 "2017-06-14T18:50:56Z")
Custom permanent permalinks is not something that is easy to build. Would require a bunch of internal changes.
Not on our roadmap at the moment.
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### Author:  [@jidetheblogger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidetheblogger)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2017, 6:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalink-for-topics/45128/11 "2017-06-15T06:01:25Z")
Pls, any official doc on how to use the Permalinks feature. Seems topic redirection [not working](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-redirect-from-permalinks/59727/8).