Category Based Permalinks Conundrum

Hi all,

I acquired a site with a permalink structure that doesn’t use custom permalinks by parent/child categories. This approach worked for the 1.0 version of the site but won’t scale with where I’m moving the site’s focus.

So, here’s the conundrum:

I can implement a category-based permalink structure with no problem.

But there are select Posts that are currently at the root domain /[slug]/ and have no categorization other than Uncategorized currently.

If updating permalink settings to category-based, these pages will then become /uncategorized/[slug].

I’d like to avoid this and not have to enter 301s for some of the most important pages on the site.

If 100% needed, I can add 301s and categorize these pages and adjust the permalink structure to something other than uncategorized.

The category-based approach will work well for new content I’m producing, but these select pages are the conundrum that invalidates the category-based permalink approach, AFAIK.

Is there a way to have my cake and eat it too, to keep just select Posts (100+ of them) at the root domain level, but everything else to follow category-based permalinks?

• This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic
• This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by Jan Dembowski.

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