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1. salamandre
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hi all,

   I have changed the category base to "categorie" (french translation). Now there are a lot of 404 errors. I did the same with the tag base.

   Is it possible to redirect http://www.mywebsite.com/category/hightech/ to http://www.mywebsite.com/categorie/hightech/ with a variable in order to avoid a long list of redirections with all the categories and tags I already have (whatever the tag or category is I want to replace category by categorie etc).

   I hope my explanation is clear enough.

   Thanks in advance.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

2. jrf
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hi Salamandre,

   Yeah, that's done easily enough. Use variations to the following ruleset:

   Source URL: ^/category/([a-z0-9_-]+)/$
   Match: URL only
   Action: Redirect to URL
   Regex: on
   Target URL: /categorie/{$1}/

   Explanation of the regex:
   ^/category/([a-z0-9_-]+)/$
   ^ = start matching at the very start of the URL-path (the domain is cut off automatically already)
   /category/ = the old name
   () = remember what's between the brackets
   [a-z0-9_-]+ = match a phrase which may use any of the characters between a to z, 0 to 9, _ or -. The plus means 1 or more characters needed.
   If you want, you can tell it to match for instance a minimum of 4 characters and a maximum of 10 by replacing the + with {4,10}.
   / = character match the end slash
   $ = end the URL-path

   The phrase which was caught between the () brackets, is re-used in the target URL by using the $1 (= first - in this case also the only - remembered match).

   So this regex will match for instance:
   

   http://mysite.com/category/hightech/
   http://mysite.com/category/hightech3/
   http://mysite.com/category/high-tech/
   http://mysite.com/category/high_tech/

   But it won't match:
   

   http://mysite.com/tag/category/hightech/ - Url path doesn't start with /category/
   http://mysite.com/category/hightech - Url path doesn't end with a slash
   http://mysite.com/category/hightech/page1/ - Url path has more info behind the requested match
   http://mysite.com/category/high.tech/ - The . is not within the allowed character range

   Hope this helps!

   Smile,
   Juliette

3. salamandre
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   It is very kind of you Juliette ! It is a lesson and I save it as a PDF !
   Thanks a lot of your help I really appreciate it.

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