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i selected custom structure and pasted this:

%postname%

@acrane – Thanks indeed for your suggestion.

Is postname the same as page title!!?

Sheesh, you’d-a-thunk that’s what they would have said in the first place.

What you offered makes total sense but code is SO SPECIFIC I can’t believe the Codex would be so loosey goosey with its instructions!

And the title of my question should have been How to code permalinks for static pages. Oh well, was in a hurry to ask the question!

The page title is whatever the page is called. The permalink code dictates what the pattern of the page/post title (or “slug” as it’s commonly called) will follow. Normally, for a WordPress Page, when permalinks are used, it follows the page name. E.g., About would be /about/, Contact would be /contact/ and so forth. So it’s really about as specific as it can be and still be generic enough for everyone’s use.

Be careful when reading the Codex because there is a big difference between “page” and “Page,” as “Page” means specifically a WordPress static page. ??

Be in less of a hurry and slow down, take a breath and read. Then come to the forum for help better able to articulate the problem and how to help you. Haste makes waste. ??

I am using Pages, not posts for this particular site.

I am still not clear on what the correct code should be for the permalinks in this case where I want to use the page slug – I assume it is not the same thing as %postname% since the Pages are not posts?

And believe me I’ve read very carefully everything in the Codex I could find or I would not have come here to ask the question.

Enable “Permalinks” to show the “page title”

simply means – set up a custom permalink structure (chose one of the presets to start) and your page permalinks will be automatically re-structured to incorporate their titles.