Comments on: How to Update Your WordPress Permalinks Without Causing Link Rot

By: Rick Beckman

Rick Beckman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:46:43 +0000

Before it. :)

By: Joel K

Joel K — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:45:37 +0000

When you say add it BEFORE the wordpress code, do you mean before the line that starts “# BEGIN WordPress” or just after that??

Thanks

By: Leaving the Dates Out of Your URLs [Blogging Tip]

Leaving the Dates Out of Your URLs [Blogging Tip] — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:50:23 +0000

[…] site/wp-content/uploads/year/month/picture_name.jpg. Ari did some additional research and found a post by Rick Beckman and learned the correct redirect rule for his […]

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:42:16 +0000

You rock, Rick! But you already knew that, right? :)

I switched around my permalink structure last night–courtesy of http://www.keenerliving.com/leaving-the-dates-out-of-your-urls-blogging-tip/ — but the RedirectMatch line wasn’t working correctly.

After emailing back and forth with Bruce, I had it down to

RedirectMatch 301 /([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.*)$ http://ariwriter.com/$3

That solved the posts, but created a conflict with date-based archive pages and uploaded images in date-based wp-content folders. One link led to another–and I came across this. I now have:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/([a-z0-9\-/]+) http://ariwriter.com/$1 and it works great!

Better to use htaccess than plugins I figure; cleaner!

By: Money Off Shop

Money Off Shop — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:05:33 +0000

Hi Rick — just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for your clear and concise instructions. They worked a treat when I changed my permalink structure and the search engines love it!

Thanks again — you’re a genius :-)

By: bongkersz

bongkersz — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:07:56 +0000

Awesome! Thanks a lot dude. You made my day, after searching up and down in the internet, trying few plugins which needs more tweaking works.. this one piece of code save the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

By: jgoode

jgoode — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:41:39 +0000

Awesome, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much for your fantastically clear information, your help pointing me to this article and your willingness to share additional outside links for further insight. I ended up having to go with the mod-rewrite version, but it works perfectly!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:18:15 +0000

I just did a hellish move from an extremely outdated Movable Type installation to WordPress. All I wanted was to redirect my old permalink format:
/blog/archives/123456.php

to my new format:
/blog/archives/123456

I Googled for hours and tried all sorts of redirect rules, and nothing worked until your Redirect Match tip. THANK YOU!

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By: Max Forlani

Max Forlani — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:17:08 +0000

Hi Rick,

very interesting article.

Over the weekend, I actualy did a double change. I switched from a windows based server to the Apache version, to get rid of the stupid index.php

And on top of that, I wanted to get rid of the day in the url, but keep the year and month.

To do all this, I used the tool that you mention and that may have a security breach. So I’m certainly willing to give your suggestion a go, but how would that string look like in my case?

Original url:
http://www.domain.com/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

Current URL:
http://www.domain.com/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

Beside the already mentioned plugin, I also use the Objection Redirection plugin (http://www.biggnuts.com/objection-redirection-wordpress-plugin/). I read about this in an article on a Permalink Change by DoshDosh. Does this still make sense if I apply the .htaccess tool?

Kind regards,
Max

By: Rick Beckman

Rick Beckman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:07:33 +0000

Alexander - StrategieVincenti: Glad to hear it. :D