How can I change my character separator in my post titles/hyperlinks?

  • Resolved Marijn

    (@marijn-bent)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi there,

    I need to migrate a couple of websites from a custom cms to WordPress. The old cms used the following url structure:

    Page name: test
    /test

    Page name: test test
    /test+test

    If I paste this into the custom url option on ‘New Page’, WordPress autocorrects it to /testtest (deleting that +). This is however important for the existing Google rating. As the site has 60 pages, it don’t want 60 301 redirections. How can I force this + in the url as the empty spaces?

    I made this new topic because of this new title, which is more clear.

    Thanks,
    Marijn

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  • There’s a good reason for that; search engines see “+” in a URL as a space (especially when passed to query). I fear you have been sorely misinformed; doing the 301 redirects will benefit you in the long run versus keeping the plus signs in the URLs.

    That being said, if you still wish to do it, you could modify this plugin to do it.

    Thread Starter Marijn

    (@marijn-bent)

    Hi Chris,

    You are absolutely right. In case of my own website’s, I would always use -, but my client just wants the + back. Thank you so much for helping me out, stupid from my side I didn’t think of this solution :-)! Modifying this will be simple.

    Thanks,
    Marijn

    Glad I could help!

    Thread Starter Marijn

    (@marijn-bent)

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