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1. EmilyG
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   My permalinks are set to : /%category%/%postname%/

   Trouble is, I'd like to rename and reorganize my categories. What will happen to the urls of my previous posts?

   For example, if a highly-used category for my site is Parenting with Zing! If I change the category to "mindful parenting" instead, what will happen?

   Is there an easy way to avoid trouble or confusion by using the category slug? I can't find any info about this in the forums. Please help.

   Thanks.

   Emily
   http://www.childperspective.com

2. equalmark
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   All your links should change dynamically. For example if you have a category called general and then a sub category called something and you write a post called hello then the slug would be:

   http://yourdomain.com/general/something/hello

   If you decided to rename your general category to sport then WordPress will automatically change the permalink/slug of all posts so the example above would change to:

   http://yourdomain.com/sport/something/hello

   Hope this helps - sorry if I have misunderstood.

3. EmilyG
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   O.K. Just to verify-
   If I change my post called Grateful for Gun Play in the child perspective category:

   http://www.childperspective.com/child-perspective/grateful-for-gun-play/

   to the category discipline, reading:

   http://www.childperspective.com/discipline/grateful-for-gun-play

   then WordPress will automatically change the permalink, so that all links to the first - http://www.childperspective.com/child-perspective/grateful-for-gun-play/
   would actually lead to the right place, the new category:
   http://www.childperspective.com/discipline/grateful-for-gun-play.

   Wish I had a better way to explain this, but am just verifying that we are essentially saying the same thing.

   Emily

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