Currently I am using Wordpress v3.4 and using the following Permalink Custom Structure
/%category%/%postname%-%post_id%.html
Now I want to remove .html from it so I did like this
/%post_id%/%postname%/
I want to 301 redirect from old structure to new one.
Does anyone have the solution or suggestion?
Just use Redirection WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have.
Honestly, you should have never had put the extension, honestly I am surprised that Wordpress allowed this. However, if you change the permalink structure, usually it updates all previous posts and pages. Is that not the case here?
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I want to change the permalink structure of my website from
../%postname%/
to
.. /%categroy%/%postname%/
The problem is that there are many backlinks which still link to /%postname%/ and those would return a 404. I tried using plugins but they wont let me use the variables from wordpress.
Now, I want to create a redirect for all those old Backlinks which redirect from
../%postname%/
to
.. /%categroy%/%postname%/
I guess an easy solution would be to modify the htaccess file but I have no idea how to do this? Or are there actually any plugins which handle that problem?
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks.
you may check this plugin this will help for variable redirect for users
https://wordpress.org/plugins/peters-login-redirect/
I currently have a website using the permalink structure:
http://xxx.xxx/%postname%/
I want to change this to:
http://xxx.xxx/xxx/%postname%/
So basically giving the default post type a slug rewrite like you can with CPT.
However, as we all know all the indexed pages will 404 so I need to write some HTACCESS to but not sure what I need.
If I use the following then all pages are re-directed too:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/([^/]+)/$ http://xxx.xxx/xxx/$1
Where as I just want the default post type re-directed.
Thanks
This cannot be done, you need to completed 301 redirects for each post and tag.
Have blogged about my process here: http://www.chewx.co.uk/2015/wordpress-permalink-update-from-postname/
If anyone can think of a better way, let me know.
I'm looking at moving from Wordpress to Octopress but I'm extremely skeptical about the whole post-slug url management. My current blog handles urls in this fashion:
myblog.com/post-id/post-slug
e.g.:
journal.kaush.co/283/recommended-mac-os-x-software-2011-2012
I understand Octopress has a url scheme as follows:
myblog.com/YYYY/MM/DD/post-slug
So if i have to setup 301 redirects, will this have to be done manually for every single page, or is there a more intelligent way to approach this?
Cheers
Update permalink structure first ( check this one) and use 301 redirect using this plugin.
Taking cue from Virtual Vagabond, i went the .htaccess route. Fortunately,another good soul on the internet has written a script for this. You can find the ruby script used to generate the .htaccess file here.
I have changed my permalink structure in WordPress.
Can a plugin help me redirect old links to the new?
Thanks!
Redirection works for this, however for it to automatically detect the permalink changes, you'll probably have to revert the permalinks, install Redirection, and then change to the desired permalinks again.
If this isn't adequate, you can add them manually, and it has tools to help you find 404's that you were not aware of.
I need some help with an .htaccess rewrite.
I have a site that had this permalink:
/archive/%post_id
and changed it to this:
/%postname%/
I have tried every single permalink redirect and change plugin - none of them work for this scenario.
The site has 15,000 posts, adding one line 301 redirects in the .htaccess file isn't going to work.
Can someone help me add a rewrite that will redirect all instances of /archive/%post_id to /%postname%/ ?
any help appreciated!
I know you said you tried all the plugins, but just in case, did you try this one:
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-to-use-deans-permalink-migration-plugin-for-wordpress.html
Looks like it dynamically creates 301s for you without SEO damage. Written in 2006, still working in 2009 - you might be able to tweak the code to get it working how you want.
If that is the 'quick' solution then the 'long' solution would be to write an app to lookup the postname by postid in your mysql db and then change each post URL in your wordpress database with the postname value.