Something is adding date structure to permalinks rather than the title

I’m not sure what I did to my permalink structure, but somewhere along the way I somehow managed to add the date in front of where my titles are supposed to be. So the format looks like this now:

localhost/wordpress/2018/03/18/topic-title-is-showing-here/

It should look like:

localhost/wordpress/topic-title-is-showing-here/

I have a funny feeling it’s my $currentPage variable which reads like this:

$currentPage = get_query_var('paged');
$photo = new WP_Query( array(
    'post_type'      => 'post',
    'posts_per_page' => 12,
    'order' 	     => 'DESC',
    'category_name'  => 'photography',
    'paged'          => $currentPage
) );

Can anyone out there lend a hand in figuring out why this might be happening?