Custom permalinks on existing site

  • Hi,
    I don’t know is this the place for my question, but .. ??

    [ Moderator note: moved to Fixing WordPress. Please do not use Developing With WordPress for these topics. ]

    I have a news site with thousands posts. My custom permalinks structure is /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ and I want to change all post links – for old and new posts.
    What will going on if I change them to /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/%post-id% (just adding numbers in the end)? Will this break all my permalinks?

    Thank you!

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    It should not. The old URLs should still work. Test a few old URLs on your site to be sure. This is not always the case. It works here because you are adding a redundant term to the old permalink structure.

    Consider what impact new permalinks might have on any search engine page rank your pages may have built up.

    Thread Starter galinaivvn

    (@galinaivvn)

    Thanks for fast answer!
    How to test just few old links? The idea is to change all links from WP admin-> Settings-> Permalinks.

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