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Thanks Samuel

But I want to move TO WordPress from a static HTML site. This appears to be more for redirects FROM a WordPress site (I’m not yet set up on WordPress).

And the process of manually listing 1500 pages in it is no less daunting than doing the same thing in cPanel or in Notepad.

I thought it was working but actually it isn’t so obviously this is not the correct way to do it.

Thanks Kevin … I was kind of hoping that there would be some easier way but not to worry.

I think that the pain of individually creating many 301s will in the long run be worth it. And it allows me to tidy up a lot of pages that could be better named.

Thanks again.

I hadn’t realised that. I was under the impression that the name change would destroy all the incoming link value created over many years.

I do know how to set up 301 redirects using cPanel.

Would I need to manually list all 1500 pages individually in the cPanel redirect area or would the code you originally posted above deal with a bulk redirect?

Thanks again for your help.

Thanks for your replies.

Tim: I have considered using 301 redirects. However, this would be quite a task as I’m moving approximately 1500 pages. In addition, the site has hundreds of well established incoming links which (I assume) would lose their value if the page names change.

Ipstenu: The rewrite rule is too technical for my understanding so I guess a plugin seems to be my only option.