I didn’t find an answer to above solution but I have something that works well enough for now. Put other pages I need to link to (“thank you” & “privacy”) is a folder inside the root name “n.” The end result are links that are good enough and not confusing to end users.
Looks like it was trying to create a taxonomy called category which was causing odd behaviour, ripping this code out did the trick, though some rewrite rules were necessary to make paginated archive pages work.
The fix was to rename and reupload the image and it cleared up. This is clearly a bug as a image should not rewrite URLS like this.
If you organize your posts into categories, WP will automatically make all posts in the category ‘syllabus’ available under ‘mycourse.com\category\syllabus’. If this is not enough you can install a plugin like No Category Base that will reduce that url to ‘mycourse.com\syllabus’.
I combined this nice solution for adding an additional option to the permalinks page and this snippet for adding a custom base name to page permalinks. Usage Save the snippet below as wpse238124-page-base.php, place it in your plugins directory, and activate Page Base on your plugins page. Then, visit your permalinks page, enter your desired … Read more
You can use post name in your permalinks setting. And for Category Base and Tag Base make it blank Hope this will help
When you upload any media. you are actually creating a new post, with type, attachment, so you permalink is stored in exactly the same way as a normal post, in the table.. YOU_PREFIX_posts. It is also stored with its own meta_data, again same as normal post type, stored in YOUR_PREFIX_postmeta.
The plugin WPGlobus allowed me to achieve what I stated in the question.
I think you need something like this: You need goto this page http://example.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
Append a random string to a post permalink