Title: Permalink Changes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Permalink Changes

 *  [AD7863](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ad7863/)
 * (@ad7863)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-1/)
 * I think WordPress should automatically redirect old URLs to new URLs when you
   change the permalink structure.
 * It’s just better that way.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-1/#post-2529442)
 * If you are changing from the default to a custom structure, it will.
 *  Thread Starter [AD7863](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ad7863/)
 * (@ad7863)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-1/#post-2529446)
 * Yes but what about changing from one custom structure to another?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-1/#post-2529450)
 * No – it won’t. Not sure that’s even slated for a future version as it would involve
   keeping the old permalink structures in the database (rather like post revisions)
   and where do you draw the line there? 1 revision? 2 revisions? 5 revisions?
 *  Thread Starter [AD7863](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ad7863/)
 * (@ad7863)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-1/#post-2529459)
 * Well I dunno.
 * But how long do you really need to do a 301 re-direct for before Google re-indexes
   the website anyway?
 * I’m sure someone much smarter than myself can come up with a good solution.
 * I want to change the permalink structure on my blog but the links keep breaking.
 * I’ve tried a few plugins but they don’t work.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-1/#post-2529558)
 * It kind of depends what you’re switching from and to.
 * I mean if you’re changing from domain.com/YYYY/MM/DD/POSTNAME to domain.com/YYYY/
   POSTNAME, you can use .htaccess redirects for it.
 * Though I’ve noticed WP’s freaky smart about catching onto that anyway.
 *  Thread Starter [AD7863](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ad7863/)
 * (@ad7863)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-1/#post-2529628)
 * What if I wanted to change my permalink structure from `YYYY/MM/DD/CATEGORY/POSTNAME`
   to `CATEGORY/POSTNAME-POSTIDHOUR`?
 * Can someone help me with this?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-1/#post-2529637)
 * Try posting a topic in the How-To forum.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-1/#post-2529656)
 * And look up .htaccess regexp 🙂
 * (You probably can’t do it, though, since while you can turn YYYY/MM/DD/CATEGORY/
   POSTNAME into CATEGORY/POSTNAME, there’s no way for .htaccess to grock -POSTIDHOUR–
   Of course, you probably don’t need to. CATEGORY/POSTNAME itself _should _redirect
   to CATEGORY/POSTNAME-POSTIDHOUR anyway.)

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 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)
 * [structure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/structure/)

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