Help changing Permalinks structure

  • I would like toi change permalinks from “/%postname%” to the commonly used “/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/”.
    I’m not sure if I should simply change it at the WP panel, and leave the rest to WP.
    My main concern is if I’m going to get a lot of 404’s from the search engine spiders, and my indexation process with them has to start all over again.
    Anyone can give me some hints on how to do this, or perhaps I should keep the permalinks as “/%postname%” and avoid problems ?

    Thanks.

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  • Permalink changes are done in the admin panel > Options > Permalinks by typing in the new structure and hitting “Update”. The rest is done by WP ??

    Links to your old URIs would result in 404, unless you manually set up some .htaccess rules to redirect the old addresses to the new one.

    Search engines? I don’t know if they get a 404… (never really interested in this stuff, and one day discovered my nickname here gets quite highly ranked ?? But one thing is for sure: it will take some time until the SEs will index your new URIs.

    Thread Starter sren

    (@sren)

    Thanks moshu, great hints as always ??
    Do you think there’re some drawbacks if I leave “/%postname%” ?
    I’ve been reading that setting the permalinks like this is sort of “deprecated”.

    I am not a SEO experts by no means.
    You know as well as I do that on the net you can find about anything at least one “pro” opinion” and one “con”.
    It’s not what was said – but who did say it? ??

    If the post titles (and the slugs) are good, informative, descriptive – I don’t see why would it be wrong (or “deprecated”). But again, I know nothing about SE and I don’t care about them.

    I also changed my permalink structure, but found a plugin redirecting old urls to new ones.When someone come from google to my old pages ,they are redirected to new url.

    https://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/

    and click to try:
    https://www.racingvideoz.com/2005/12/11/ferrari-f430-top-gear-video

    I had more or less the same problem but I made a custom 404 page rerouting everybody to the route of my blog.

    https://www.gumball-3000.com/rally/

    Try it with any non existing page. Should work fine.

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