Title: Link redirection after content migration
Last modified: February 2, 2017

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# Link redirection after content migration

 *  [jhutch717](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhutch717/)
 * (@jhutch717)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-redirection-after-content-migration/)
 * I just migrated a pretty large news website to wordpress…. now all of my old 
   links are dead and simply go to a search page. Does anyone know if it’s possible
   to do a htaccess redirect to show the correct content….
 * for example, I would need to automatically change all URLs that look like this…..
 * [http://profootballspot.com/nfl/news/new-england-patriots/watch-vince-wilfork-claims-im-tom-bradys-tom-brady-r3356/](http://profootballspot.com/nfl/news/new-england-patriots/watch-vince-wilfork-claims-im-tom-bradys-tom-brady-r3356/)
 * to become….
 * [http://profootballspot.com/watch-vince-wilfork-claims-im-tom-bradys-tom-brady/](http://profootballspot.com/watch-vince-wilfork-claims-im-tom-bradys-tom-brady/)
   
   __________
 * So it’s removing all of the little subfolders content was in, and getting rid
   of the content after the very last –
 * ……
 * please someone tell me this is possible

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 *  [jjchrisdiehl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjchrisdiehl/)
 * (@jjchrisdiehl)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-redirection-after-content-migration/#post-8730597)
 * There are many great redirection plugins that can help you solve this issue. 
   Here’s a link with a breakdown of the most popular ones.
 * [Redirection Plugins](https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/turn-around-the-7-best-redirect-plugins-for-wordpress)
 *  [Arvind Singh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arvindsinghu/)
 * (@arvindsinghu)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-redirection-after-content-migration/#post-8730905)
 * You can go for yoast seo plugin , this will definitely help you 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [jhutch717](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhutch717/)
 * (@jhutch717)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-redirection-after-content-migration/#post-8732705)
 * Thanks guys – however, all the plugins i’ve looked at seem to want to do things
   one by one.
 * I’ve got about 14,000 articles that are in the format mentioned, and I need to
   change them all automatically. The plugins I’ve found don’t seem to be able to
   do what I’m wanting.

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 * Last reply from: [jhutch717](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhutch717/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-redirection-after-content-migration/#post-8732705)
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