slug is in random numbers

Hi @silv3rline,

Could you send me the screenshot with your current Permastructure settings (you can find them in “Tools -> Permalink Manager -> Permastructures) and sample default permalink with Arabic letters:

https://permalinkmanager.pro/docs/basics/bulk-edit-custom-permalinks/#3-how-to-preview-new-custom-permalink-format

Please also check what version of the plugin do you use.

Version 2.4.3.2

Ok, thanks I see it. The problem here is that the post titles are stored inside the database in a HTML-encoded way.

Could you try to decode them to UTF-8 before the post title is sanitized into a slug?

function pm_convert_arabic_entities( $str, $keep_percent_sign, $force_lowercase, $sanitize_slugs ) {
	// Check for HTML entities
	if ( preg_match( '/&#[0-9]+;/', $str ) ) {
		// Convert HTML entities to UTF-8
		$str = html_entity_decode( $str, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8' );
	}

	return $str;
}
add_filter( 'permalink_manager_pre_sanitize_title', 'pm_convert_arabic_entities', 10, 4 );

I don’t have experience with code sadly.

does the pro version have functionality to fix this?

Like bulk editing posts slugs or something to reflect posts titles as permalinks.

The Pro version uses the same code, so unfortunately this will not solve this specific problem.

Actually, if your website uses a child theme, it should be quite easy to add this code snippet:

https://permalinkmanager.pro/blog/how-to-add-php-snippet-to-wordpress-3-methods/#3-how-to-insert-php-code-in-wordpress-without-plugin