Title: change all permalinks Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # change all permalinks * [Luca Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luca-dave/) * (@luca-dave) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/) * hi my friends, we need a little help, please: we have permalinks: site/year/ nameofpost we should like change in: site/nameofpost can please explain us how can make all redirections automatic with Redirection Plug In step-by-step (we don’t understand of groups, modules, referrer, etc, and we are no-profit, we cannot buy tecnichal help for our 3.000 posts) love in 2015 Elena * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/) Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atomiktd/) * (@atomiktd) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/#post-5641605) * Hi Elena, * The easiest way. * – go to Tools -> Redirections – scroll down to the very bottom – you’ll see “ Add new redirection” section – in “Source URL:” field insert “/\d+(.*)” (without quotation marks) – in “Target URL:” field insert “$1” (also without quotation marks) – tick Regex box – press “Add Redirection” button * and done! * Thread Starter [Luca Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luca-dave/) * (@luca-dave) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/#post-5641616) * thank you Tom!! without quotation marks you mean from: `field insert /d+(.*)` to: `field insert $1` correct? * [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atomiktd/) * (@atomiktd) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/#post-5641617) * Follow this: * from: field insert **/\d+(.\*)** to: field insert **$1** * There was one character (\) missing which I’ve corrected. * It will strip all numbers from the beginning and preserve the rest. * [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atomiktd/) * (@atomiktd) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/#post-5641620) * You can do it more strict way * from: **/\d+/(.\*)** * to: **/$1** * Difference is in additional slashes. This way you have all links like /2012/ post-name filtered but not /1785-year-of-something * It could be useful in case someone creates a post name starting with numbers. * Thread Starter [Luca Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luca-dave/) * (@luca-dave) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/#post-5641624) * done! everything seems to work fine! I keep my fingers crossed and a big hug to you for the help … Elena * [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atomiktd/) * (@atomiktd) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/#post-5641633) * Good luck Elena 🙂 * Thread Starter [Luca Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luca-dave/) * (@luca-dave) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/#post-5641859) * kind tom, I take advantage of your kindness, all redirections work well with the new permalinks with the last formula you suggested. I have only one little problem that concerns wordpress: when you go into a category of posts and choose in the page selector the second or after comes out withe the error 404, in the same way if you make a ‘site search’, the results you can see only on the first page that appears, subsequent others are ‘404’, what do you think about? Again thank you very much, Elena * [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atomiktd/) * (@atomiktd) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/#post-5641860) * Do you use WP SEO by Yoast? and have “Strip the category base” option checked under Permalinks settings? * What you describe happened to me so I do not use this feature. Although permalinks look better but they don’t work well with pagination. * Thread Starter [Luca Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luca-dave/) * (@luca-dave) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/#post-5641861) * no, we do not use WP SEO by Yoast. In permalinks page of wordpress we have a“ category base”, but until now has not given us problems… * [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atomiktd/) * (@atomiktd) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/#post-5641862) * OK, I can see what is causing problem 🙂 * Change redirection I’ve shown you before. From field. * instead of: /\d+/(.*) * should be: **^**/\d+/(.*) * The only difference is caret character at the beginning. It means, that all comparison should start from the beginning of URL only. * It should help 🙂 * Thread Starter [Luca Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luca-dave/) * (@luca-dave) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/#post-5641863) * Tom I love you!! (in the sense of brotherhood) everything seems to work well a big hug E. * [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atomiktd/) * (@atomiktd) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-all-permalinks/#post-5641864) * At your service 🙂 Good luck Elena. 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