Comments on: WordPress How To: Change Your Blog’s Permalinks

By: Sanix

Sanix — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:28:01 +0000

Great post. I fixed my site accordingly and it’s working great.

By: insights

insights — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:31:47 +0000

Thanks for your guide. I have very well understood how to do the custom setting. But I am afraid to make changes to the .htaccess file. Is there any other way do the redirection?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:27:49 +0000

Rewrite's can be tricky, I'd suggest reading about them and then checking out a generator to get this done: mod_rewrite RewriteRule Generator

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:25:04 +0000

Let’s say a year down the road you decide to do another switch, changing from /%postname%/ to say /%category%/%postname%/, how would you write the REWRITE rule for that?

I’m struggling with this problem now. I don’t want the redirect to take effect on my pages, but rather just my posts. However if my post’s are the same as my pages in terms of the slug there’s no way to differentiate, at least to my knowledge. Any ideas out there?

Thanks for the great post Paul

By: Jordan Francis

Jordan Francis — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:24:59 +0000

Nice article.

The other reason why you might want to have post-id in your permalink structure as well is to avoid the possibility of having a duplicate URL.

In other words, over time, you may end up creating a post with the same title as a prior post.. but maybe Wordpress has a trick up its sleeve to get around that (I’ve not tested it).

By: Spyros

Spyros — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:12:26 +0000

Paul, many thanks for your article.
I’m also trying to create some pretty links.
Currently my URLs are like this: http://example.com/blog/archives/123 and I want to convert them to http://example.com/blog/post_ID/Post_name but I’m not sure what my RedirectMatch line should be as I don’t really undestand how it works in the first place.
Could you please give me some advice?

Regards
Spyros

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By: Abhilash Manapatt

Abhilash Manapatt — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:03:56 +0000

Hi Paul

Thanks for the article.

I had changed the permalinks a few days before I saw your article, and used a plugin to manage it. It worked well with the posts. But, the pages in the wordpress blog has disappeared. :(

Do you know how to get the Pages back in action? (The static pages)

Btw, I had my permalink structure change from the domain/post-name to domain/year/month/day/category-postname because mine is a news website in a particular niche. For news websites, I think its always best to have the year/month/day format – it is important if you want your site to be in Google News.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:56:43 +0000

What a great article, and what great community participation! I’ve just started a new blog http://www.wordpress-for-beginners.com, and I used the typical domain/year/month/day/name format. Now I wish I hadn’t, for SEO reasons. This article is just what I needed to set things straight. Thanks!

By: Jessica Sideways

Jessica Sideways — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:59:26 +0000

I like this article, I am hoping to do a major overhaul to my website, moving the blog to it’s own domain name and changing the permalinks too. Now I have a primer for what I want to do, I just need to figure out the best way to go about it…

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Sommarstädning på bloggen (Hej Varlden) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:47:44 +0000

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By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:15:59 +0000

changing the htaccess is the only way. any plugins you might come across end up changing the htaccess themselves, which might be dangerous having a plugin doing for you, especially if it were to have its own bug.

By: Roosh

Roosh — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:07:52 +0000

Worked beautifully and without having to use a plugin. Thanks!

By: reader

reader — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:55:56 +0000

good job ;-) thanks

By: Jeff from Craziest Gadgets

Jeff from Craziest Gadgets — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:25:54 +0000

thanks paul- i’ve been seriously considering switching permalinks to get rid of the dates to make the older posts more evergreen, this post is giving me a bit more confidence. but i’m wondering if there’s a plugin or some other simple way to avoid editing htacccess?

By: Bruce Keener

Bruce Keener — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:56:41 +0000

Adam, that is exactly the plugin. I remember the name now that you have said it. Thanks for the links, including the article you wrote!

By: Adam Pieniazek

Adam Pieniazek — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:59:30 +0000

Bruce, I think the plugin you're looking for is Custom Query String Reloaded. Here's a write-up I did on the plugin on how to show all posts in a category, same rules can be applied to archives, tags etc.

By: Me on the Net

Me on the Net — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:11:14 +0000

nice post. i’m sure this info will be usefull for me

By: myWordPress.de

myWordPress.de — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:49:51 +0000

Ändern der Permalink Struktur…

Normalerweise soll die Permalink Struktur nicht geändert werden, da Google & Co. sonst 404 Fehler bekommen, was nicht gut für die Plazierungen ist.
Jedoch habe ich vorhin einen Artikel gefunden, der Euch erklärt, wie Ihr Eure Permalink Struktur …

By: Vinod

Vinod — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:17:30 +0000

Wondering how can I have these rewrite rules re-written for the nginx!

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By: Bruce Keener

Bruce Keener — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:03:50 +0000

Good to hear, Abraham.
I also want to thank Paul again for his great detail on this. One of the reasons this is my favorite tech blog on the planet!

By: Abraham Vegh

Abraham Vegh — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:57:15 +0000

Thanks for your concern and information, Bruce. I’ve checked the noindex attributes, and they seem to be appearing in the right places. On top of that, I’ve only recently started blogging in earnest (i.e. serious blogging, not the random mumbling I used to do – I’ve only yesterday started paginating on the home page ;), so I don’t have that much content to mess up, if I do. Originally, I was using the fully extended site/year/month/day/post format, which I kept for the first two posts, and then dropped in favor of the more “firiendly”/compact site/year/month/post. So I’m not particularly worried about losing my rankings or breaking links yet, but anyone with a somewhat considerable amount of content should probably think twice before switching. Thanks again, and thanks Paul for your writeup and other tips.

By: Bruce Keener

Bruce Keener — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:41:41 +0000

Abraham, bear in mind that my former URL structure was site/year/month/DAY/postname, so I never ran into in problems myself with date archives, and therefore have had no problems in noindex’ing them. For someone whose redirects are not properly working though, and are borking the date archive paged pages, noindexing might not be the best thing to do, now that I think about it … what if it noindex’s the wrong page, for example.

My noindex comment applies to those who had a setup similar to mine (and to Paul’s), and might not apply to those who had a setup of site/year/month/postname.

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