Nginx rewrite rule for wordpress to remove date and html from the permalink

The following may work for you…

rewrite "^/[\d]{4}/[\d]{2}/(.*).html$" /$1 permanent;

You may put it at the top of all other rewrite and location directives. I hope that helps.

I know this topic is 11 months old but it’s partly relevant to a desire of mine.

I wish to hide the numerical information from the display urls / permalinks.

For example:

https://websitename/2014-07-30/gardening/bestflowerseeds/10

Would display to the users as:

https://websitename/gardening/bestflowerseeds.

I’ve found many redirect plugins but none of them appear to be able to do this.

I also found Yoasts Redirect page but a) it doesn’t seem to work and b) it doesn’t appear to include category, just post name, i wish for both.

Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated!