# New topic URL format

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-url-format/225345>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 26, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-url-format/225345 "2022-04-26T16:47:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cozdabuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cozdabuch/32/139120_2.png) [@Cozdabuch](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Cozdabuch)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-url-format/225345/7 "2022-04-26T21:31:13Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> but it seems like you have a chicken/egg problem

Nail on head Jay.. you hit it

I guess it boils down to is that the wizard is already responsible for creating the thread title, thus the URL can be entirely predicted except for the topic ID. So is there a way discourse will direct a user to a topic if the URL doesn’t contain the topic ID, or is there any rule via a custom plug-in that allows discourse to ignore the topic ID provided the entirety of the url matches minus the topic ID..

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