Dazza

just a quick extra – I realise for pages and the like I could indeed have a permalink structure that would change the https://www.example.com/?page_id=26 to https://www.example.com/about/. However, for the way I am using pages, there is an unfortunate overlap in that permalink structure and subdirectories on the site.
Further, while it would be possible to construct a permalink structure to avoid this conflict, I would really much rather change the parameters for the query.

sorry, I re-read my post and it doesnt seem particularly clear ??
I had read the permalinks codex entry before, but it deals with hiding the underlying parameter query. I dont want to hide it at all – I simply want to change the parameters’ name and accepted values.

For example: the default structure is https://www.example.com/?p=423 for posts, and for Pages, it’s https://www.example.com/?page_id=26

I want to change this so for example post links are https://www.example.com/?news=423, and pages come up as https://www.example.com/?page=about (the parameter being changed from their post ID to their post slug).

I hope that’s slightly clearer ??

Major bump ??

Im interested in how you could change page_id to something else (like just page), as well as changing the parameter for it from the ID to perhaps the page’s slug.

Theres a site (not using wordpress) that does something like this: https://www.teamice.org/

Any ideas?