# Permalink Wildcards **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-wildcards/110998 **Category:** Support **Created:** [March 7, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-wildcards/110998 "2019-03-07T16:51:56Z") **Posts on this page:** 7 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![DigitalStartup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/digitalstartup/32/118242_2.png) [@DigitalStartup](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DigitalStartup) #### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-wildcards/110998/1 "2019-03-07T16:51:56Z")
Soon, I’ll be replacing my Wordpress site with Discourse. Rather than set up a Permalink _**(or simple 301 redirect)**_ for each URL individually, can I setup a wildcard to capture multiple pages at once? If not, is there a way I can import this data to speed up the process? _Example scenario:_ | Old Wordpress URLs | Discourse Topic ID | | --- | --- | | `/example-a` | 100 | | `/example-a/example1.html` | 100 | | `/example-a/example2.html` | 100 | | `/example-a/example3.html` | 100 | | `/example-a/example4.html` | 100 | | `/example-b` | 200 | | `/example-b/example1.html` | 200 | | `/example-b/example2.html` | 200 | | `/example-b/example3.html` | 200 | | `/example-b/example4.html` | 200 | _Visually:_ ![Untitled%20Diagram](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/e/ae2d2c98b60065ff5c0f9d47d3a2bc85b8f2ab72.png) Therefore any URL starting “`example-a`” would go to `100` and “`example-b`” would go to `200` ---
### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman) #### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-wildcards/110998/2 "2019-03-07T17:00:07Z")
See the `permalink normalizations` site setting. Note that permalinks work only for links coming in to the site from outside. They will not work for internal links. You’ll need to rewrite those in `raw`. ---
### Author: ![DigitalStartup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/digitalstartup/32/118242_2.png) [@DigitalStartup](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DigitalStartup) #### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-wildcards/110998/3 "2019-03-07T17:30:40Z")
Please, can you expand on your answer. I’ve updated the question for clarity. ---
### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen) #### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-wildcards/110998/4 "2019-03-07T18:21:09Z")
Did you look at` /admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=permalink`? ---
### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman) #### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-wildcards/110998/5 "2019-03-07T18:22:05Z")
Does this explanation of `permalink normalizations` not help? > [@](#): > > Apply the following regex before matching permalinks, for example: /(topic._)?._/\1 will strip query strings from topic routes. Format is regex+string use \1 etc. to access captures So you’d do something like ``` /(example-*)\?.*/\1 ``` so all of the `example[123]*` would be removed before it’s matched against the permalinks. ---
### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system) #### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 7:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-wildcards/110998/6 "2022-04-19T07:45:05Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger) #### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 9:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-wildcards/110998/7 "2022-04-19T09:22:52Z")