pie0o

Yeah I switched them off and am using a different plugin for now.

Thank you so much for your help and your patience. Much appreciated!

The thing I now need to consider is that this form of permalink is not really that useful, as it contains no additional information for search engines and such, it’s just prettier.

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Yes, sorry for the bump. For some reason your response earlier did not load for me this morning.

Thank you for clarifying. So it can’t be done.

So I either have to create a redirect for every single link individually in a plugin like Redirection.

Or could I do this with a regexp, just lose the index.php and the post_id?

/index.php/%post_id%/%postname%/

to

/%postname%/

Thank you very much for the help.

How would I write post_id?

Source: ^/\index/\./\php/ [post-id syntax] /?(.*)
Target: /$1/

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• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by pie0o.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by pie0o.

^bump

Thank you for your answer. Yes, I am pretty sure WP can handle rewrites from the original URL index.php?p=1234 to a new “pretty” permalink structure as eg. mine /index.php/%post_id%/%postname%/.

However I am not sure, the same applies if I switch between two types of “pretty” permalink structures eg. from /index.php/%post_id%/%postname%/ to say /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/.

It is my understanding, that this would lead to errors for incoming links, and there for mess with search engine ranking etc. To avoid that I would need a regexp for that. htaccess versus plugin, I guess each have their advantages.

But I am stuck on how to write this regexp rule. I think I figured out the basic structure, but I am unclear how to write the /index.php/ and the /%post_is%/ part of the rule.

Source: ^/ [index.php] / [post-id syntax] /?(.*)
Target: /\d{4}/\d{2}/\d{2}/$1/

Can anyone help me to write the exact regexp?

Thanks. Seems to me – if I understand it correctly – with Redirection I would need to to a rule for each post, no? With over 5000 items that’s crazy.
Or maybe I didn’t see it right?