Multiple changes possible with Redirection?

  • Resolved parisheather77

    (@parisheather77)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hi everyone,

    I have a 15-year-old site with about 950 posts in it that I’d like to migrate to a new WordPress site. I have pretty good SEO considering it’s a total mess. So I need to both be able to make a lot of changes to the URLs (everything except the site name) *and* be able to redirect all of the traffic to keep SEO. I only have experience with Squarespace 5 (eek!), so I’m looking for your advice to avoid doing something really dumb.

    In a nutshell, I’m hoping to change the old URLS:
    https://site.name/old-stupid-long-post.html

    To shiny new URLs:
    https://site.name/category/short-post-name/

    There are FOUR big changes:
    1) http to https
    2) /long-post-name-slug/ to /short-post-slug/
    3) /post-name.html to /post-name/
    4) /%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/

    Is this possible within the Redirection plug-in? If yes, what order should I do it in? If no, should I just create individual 301 redirects for every single post since I need to shorten the individual slugs anyway?

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    Ok, so a lot of questions! Most of it Redirection can do, although it will take several steps to get there.

    1) There are many ways of doing this. Redirection does have a ‘force https’ option
    2) If there is a pattern to this then you can use a regular expression. If there is no pattern then you’ll need to create a redirect for each long to short post name
    3) You can create a regular expression redirect for this https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/
    4) This is trickier. You can create a redirect for each post you have. It is possible to import data into Redirection, so if you have a way of exporting your URLs then it may save you time.

    Thread Starter parisheather77

    (@parisheather77)

    Hi John,

    As I was formulating the question, I realized that it would be a little silly to set up all of the regular expression redirects and then end up manually changing each slug anyway (#2; no pattern)…so, I will edit each URL and import the spreadsheet into Redirection when finished.

    Thanks for such a speedy response, have a great day!
    Heather

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