Permalink migration issue

  • Resolved exb1

    (@exb1)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hello there,

    I have changed the permalink structure of a small news site a few weeks back and I had to use an old outdated plugin called Postname Permalink Auto Redirect, as I couldn’t make it work with anything else. It does the job but not for everything and creates internal errors.

    I would love to redo it and make it work this time with the Redirection plugin and regex. It was my 1st choice but a big failure. That’s why I switched to something else.

    Basically, I have changed the structure from /%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/ . I went to site > permalink migration and added /%postname%/ to redirect everything automatically to the new structure but it didn’t work.

    I tried to create a regex rule, but it seems that I can’t find the right command to identify the main category of a post automatically. Do you have by any chance a way to create the proper rule or any other solution?

    Thank you in advance for your time!

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by exb1.
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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    The permalink migration feature is in beta and does not cover every combination of permalink. This is one it does not currently cover.

    It is not possible to use a regular expression to generate information that doesn’t exist in a URL.

    At the moment the only solution is to create a redirect for each post.

    Thread Starter exb1

    (@exb1)

    Hi John,

    Thank you for your answer.

    I understand better now why I was having such a hard time!

    I will check regularly the updates regarding the permalink migration feature then.

    Best,

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