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1. nickaster
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hey gang,

   I have migrated my entire MT blog to WP, worked great, but I want to reconstruct the same URL structure I had before (otherwise all my internal and extenral links will break!)

   Worst case scenario I can create a massive htaccess redirect system, but I'd much rather recreate the same structure.

   1) I want to use the first XX characters of the title of the post as the main part of the URL. Where do i go to work this out?
   2) I want all the individual pages to be in a directory called /pages
   3) In MT there was a handy field called "basename" which you could use to overrite the first XX character rule in the event the title was not clear - is there something like this in WP?

   Thanks!!!

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   hmmm...
   wordpress uses permalinks
   review and see what you can do
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

3. nickaster
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Excellent, that's what I was looking for, but couldn't find it. Two questions:

   1) Are you aware of any "basename" style plugin that would allow a user to over-write the default settings in the event that they used an obscure title and wanted something different for the URL

   2) How does word press handle duplicate titled entries? ie - lets say I use the following custom permalink setting:

   /%category%/%postname%/

   And I proceed to have two entries in the same category with exactly the same title. What happens?

   Finally - 2 bonus questions - can I limit the number of characters that come from %postname% ? ie - lets say I only want my URLs to be 50 characters long so I want it to cut off at a point. Also - how does %postname% convert spaces? Can I specifcy underscores, hyphens, etc... ?

   Thanks!!!

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