Just changed permalinks structure – How to make redirect?

  • phattrance

    (@phattrance)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    I just changed my permalink structure from

    /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

    to

    /funny/%postname%/

    Mostly for getting rid of the dates and was wondering what i need to add to the .htaccess file to make this redirect happen when google enters my blog. I do not want tons of 404 errors due to this change 🙂

    Blog url: http://meme-lol.com/

    thx

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    10 years, 7 months ago

    The canonical redirect feature built into WordPress should take care of that automatically for you and you do not have to do anything extra redirection wise.

    http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/wordpress-23-canonical-urls/

    It’s been in WordPress for a while and just works. 😉

    Thread Starter phattrance

    (@phattrance)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    actually it didnt work that well since the only thing i got was 404 errors. but i installed a plugin called “change-permalink-helper” for this that seems to be helping.. i would rather have the changes in the htaccess file instead of a plugin

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Do you have a couple of links (old vs new) by example? The .htaccess method isn’t bad but unless you somehow messed with the canonical URLs (SEO plugin?) then /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to /funny/%postname%/ just work.

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