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Hi there, I wouldn't say its bad per se, as they still allow bots to crawl a website, but I recommend using Search Engine Friendly URLs where possible as they are better rewarded.

HI Joe. Yes. Links still work flawlessly. And if you view page source, they look perfect. Here's a button I just made in the theme. http://starttheme2.wpengine.com/url-encoding/ If you hover over it you can see the url is perfect. But the url it's coded in the page like this: https%3A%2F%2Fmoz.com%2Fabout%2Fteam%2Fbritney-muller I'm not sure what plugin is causing this. If you want to have a look you most certainly are welcome to. https://starttheme2.wpengine.com/wp-admin/ UN: demo PW: St#rtTh#m#2018