# Shorter post url

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/shorter-post-url/290337
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 3, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shorter-post-url/290337 "2024-01-03T01:48:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![kenjdarhan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kenjdarhan/32/298019_2.png) [@kenjdarhan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kenjdarhan)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shorter-post-url/290337/1 "2024-01-03T01:48:44Z")

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Hello, is there any settings I can make to make my post urls shorter?

When I copy a post url from the browser, the url includes the title text of the post, which makes it very long. How can I make the url appear having just the number and the website part, without the post title part?

I know this is normally not doable. Many thanks for any suggestions.

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### Author: ![hawm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@hawm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hawm)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2024, 2:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shorter-post-url/290337/2 "2024-01-03T02:06:27Z")

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Change the `slug generation method` site settings to `none`

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### Author: ![Lhc\_fl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lhc_fl/32/268115_2.png) [@Lhc\_fl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lhc_fl)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shorter-post-url/290337/3 "2024-01-03T02:40:15Z")

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You may find that the url looks like this format:

`yoursite.com/t/{this-might-be-your-topic-title}/{topid_id}/{post_number}?xxxxxxx`

In fact topic-title has no effect. So you can safely replace it with other non-empty strings. Query parameters can also be deleted safely, such as…

`yoursite.com/t/-/{topid_id}/{post_number}`

If your post\_number is 1, then it can also be deleted…

`yoursite.com/t/{topid_id}`

Shortened!

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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: [January 3, 2024, 7:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shorter-post-url/290337/4 "2024-01-03T07:09:26Z")

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I think we also have a theme component that could be helpful - [Share Link Shortener](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-link-shortener/251965)

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### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2024, 8:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shorter-post-url/290337/5 "2024-01-03T08:05:11Z")

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Curious meta-question: why there is topic title in the first place? Old historical reasons or (weak) SEO-trick? It doesn’t bother me at all because urls are visible quite rarely nowadays.