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What is the meaining of ?p in WordPress URLs?

In my 404 log, I find a lot of accesses to the following URL pattern:

/blogs/page/1361/?p=hdwvshhe

What does that mean and what is the usage of the p parameter?

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    all ?p=hdwvshhe means is someone is trying to access some WordPress content with the ID of hdwvshhe. This would suggest that content doesn’t exist anymore/never existed. the ?p= is just the parameter to say ‘Content ID’ essentially.

    Depending on the frequency of that error it could be malicious or it could just be accidental bookmarking of old content etc

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    The default Plain Permalink also called the Ugly Permalink looks like this:

    http://example.com/?p=N

    with p as the parameter and N is the unique ID of the post or page in the database.

    WordPress comes preinstalled with this setting. It works on all server environments. It is not user-friendly and also not optimized for search engines.

    You can learn more about Permalinks structure here: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/customize-permalinks/#:~:text=Permalinks%20are%20the%20permanent%20URLs,changed%20%E2%80%94%20hence%20the%20name%20permalink.

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