Redirects After Changing Permalink Structure

  • Jeremy Boggs

    (@jeremyboggs)


    18 years, 4 months ago

    I’m considering changing my permalink structure, but by doing so links that use my original permalink structure will get a “page not found” error.

    Is there a way (plugin or otherwise) that will redirect a user from the old permalink to the new one? In other words, is there a way to redirect those old permalinks to the new permalinks so that older links to my site don’t break or get errors?

    I hope my question is clear. I know how to update the permalinks, but i’m concerned about other people linking to my posts using the old permalink structure. I want to be sure that those old links can be redirected to their corresponding new permalinks.

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  • hallsey

    (@hallsey)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    I don’t know of a plugin for that, but for sure you can do it in your .htaccess file.

    Here, check this out: http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html

    Thread Starter Jeremy Boggs

    (@jeremyboggs)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for the link, hallsey. I know that WordPress automatically adds rules to the .htaccess file to do permalinks, but I’m none-too-swift with rewrite rules and .htaccess stuff. So for the time being, I would have no idea how to manually edit my .htaccess file to get it to work the way I want per my inquiry above. Would anyone else know how to do this? rewrite from one permalink structure to another? Basically to rewrite /2005/12/15/post-title/ to simply /post-title/?

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