# Onebox doesn't work for WordPress

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 30, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-doesnt-work-for-wordpress/56618 "2017-01-30T19:40:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-doesnt-work-for-wordpress/56618/5 "2017-01-30T23:34:42Z")

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I am not a WordPress expert.

> [@BCHK](#):
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> It works fine with URLs that include the title name, but not the URL format I have - why would that be?

Because either oEmbed or Discourse won’t read past the `?`.

I’m pretty sure that if you turn on any permalinks other than “plain” your problem will be solved. It won’t hurt anything because the old `?p=xxx` links will continue to work (but remember I’m not an expert, so you should check this after you turn on permalinks).

See [http://schizophrenia.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php](http://schizophrenia.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php)

> [@mpalmer](#):
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> Do you have an example URL that does embed properly, preferably a working version of that same page, for comparison?

Here’s one from my site:

[https://www.literatecomputing.com/product/wordpress-discourse-together/](https://www.literatecomputing.com/product/wordpress-discourse-together/)

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