Title: Bit.ly link problem
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Bit.ly link problem

 *  [DonP5151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donp5151/)
 * (@donp5151)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitly-link-problem/)
 * I use Bit.ly for my blog posts to place on twitter. Some of the bit.ly links 
   now go to a page on my blog that says Oops That Page Can’t Be Found.
    I had changed
   the date on some of my posts so that I could change the order they were in. Did
   that cause the problem?

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 *  [MarkRH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrh/)
 * (@markrh)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitly-link-problem/#post-6581839)
 * Yep. If your permalinks are in the form of **Day and Name** or **Month and Name**
   then they would have changed and the Bit.ly link is still pointing to the old
   one which goes to a Page Not Found.
 * If you remember the old dates then you could write rewrite rules in your .htaccess
   to redirect to the correct place:
 *     ```
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^2015/05/26/test-post/$ 2015/05/28/test-post/ [R=301,L]
       </IfModule>
       ```
   
 * Unfortunately Bit.Ly doesn’t let you edit the links. At least I can’t find out
   if you can.
 *  Thread Starter [DonP5151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donp5151/)
 * (@donp5151)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitly-link-problem/#post-6581851)
 * Thanks. I don’t remember the dates so I am screwed on that. How can I change 
   the order of my posts without that happening?
 *  [MarkRH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrh/)
 * (@markrh)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitly-link-problem/#post-6581868)
 * Well, you can still do it this way:
 *     ```
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/2015/05/26/test-post/
       RewriteRule ^(.*)/test-post/$ 2015/05/26/test-post/ [R=301,L]
       </IfModule>
       ```
   
 * Basically, if the request is the correct link, then don’t redirect; otherwise,
   redirect to the correct one. With this you don’t need to know the old dates. 
   Need a RewriteCond/RewriteRule pair for each post.
 *  [MarkRH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrh/)
 * (@markrh)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitly-link-problem/#post-6581869)
 * There probably is a way to change the order your posts are displayed without 
   changing their dates/permalinks. One of these topics might help: [https://wordpress.org/search/changing+order+of+posts](https://wordpress.org/search/changing+order+of+posts)
 *  Thread Starter [DonP5151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donp5151/)
 * (@donp5151)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitly-link-problem/#post-6581903)
 * I had gone to that link 4 days ago. In that link is the one that told me to change
   the dates as a way to do that. I changed the dates and it did change the order
   of the posts but it also changed the URL of the posts and screwed up all the 
   bit.ly links I had used for twitter. That is a real bummer as I had sent those
   tweets to many people. Now all those bit.ly links go to my blog to a page that
   says “Oops That Page cannot be found”. That is really upsetting. Lot of work 
   down the drain!!!
    Another learn the hard way routine:-(

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [DonP5151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donp5151/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bitly-link-problem/#post-6581903)
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