# Mods/admins to change topic URL slug (just like in WordPress)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mods-admins-to-change-topic-url-slug-just-like-in-wordpress/22731
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2 ديسمبر 2014، 12:16ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mods-admins-to-change-topic-url-slug-just-like-in-wordpress/22731 "2014-12-02T00:16:01Z")
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### Author: ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [2 ديسمبر 2014، 12:16ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mods-admins-to-change-topic-url-slug-just-like-in-wordpress/22731/1 "2014-12-02T00:16:01Z")

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Currently, for our Russian forum, all the topic titles are getting transliterated to a weird English notation of Russian words before being used in URLs. It looks strange and does not read well.

Additionally, for many topics (even English ones) I’d like to set topic slug (just like you do for posts/pages in WordPress). I guess making them different to corresponding topic titles would add some value to the URLs in the eyes of Google.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2 ديسمبر 2014، 12:26ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mods-admins-to-change-topic-url-slug-just-like-in-wordpress/22731/2 "2014-12-02T00:26:31Z")

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This is a duplicate request a few times over – if you want to improve the slug ascii transliteration for a particular language, you’d have to do it in the Ruby / Rails function responsible.

We don’t have plans for custom per-topic slugs at this time, though.

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### Author: ![thangngoc89](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thangngoc89/32/115436_2.png) [@thangngoc89](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thangngoc89)
#### Post date: [2 ديسمبر 2014، 1:23ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mods-admins-to-change-topic-url-slug-just-like-in-wordpress/22731/3 "2014-12-02T01:23:19Z")

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I had raise a PR, you can see an example here: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/vietnamese-slug-support-for-better-seo/22422/11](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vietnamese-slug-support-for-better-seo/22422/11)

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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [4 ديسمبر 2025، 11:33ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mods-admins-to-change-topic-url-slug-just-like-in-wordpress/22731/4 "2025-12-04T11:33:23Z")

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