Redirect all pages at once

Yes, the plugin doesn’t support permalinks. You will need to use a regular expression:

https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

Hi John,

thanks a lot! Problem is – the date is obviously always different of course. So I can not use one expression or can I? And the new expression would be nothing, because I only want to get rid of the date, not set a new word or something.

Maybe my English or website skills are not good enough to understand fully.

What do you think? Is it possible for me to get rid of the dates in the URLs?

Thanks again!

Sure, that’s what a regular expression is for. There are examples at the bottom including one specifically for your situation.

I saw them but if I understand right I have to redirect each single article, which are quite a lot.

No, as described on the page:

A regex URL can match many URLs.

I obviously don’t understand the article then. A little bit more help here would be much appreciated.

Thank you very much!

A regular expression allows you to create a redirect that matches many URLs. The page provides a lot of information, and an example that exactly matches your situation: ‘Redirect date and name permalink’

Yes, I tried that in many different ways. All of them didn′t work!

/2020/10/28/beispielbeitrag/
/beispielbeitrag/

/2017/01/01/thing/
/thing/

….

That doesn′t work! Still the links won′t redirect to those articles.

Can you show what you have tried? Maybe include a screenshot (which you will need to store elsewhere as it’s not supported in the forums).

Can you provide a full URL?

Have you cleared all of your site caches?

Sure, I always try it with the first link here: https://linktr.ee/kathi_klaudel

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/883ee92f127722ddd6abe4439308577820201028070914/6dba3a43d38205f7b2fbef7ed9f2dcb320201028070937/fa31ff

Ok, so you don’t appear to have created a regular expression, and have instead created two redirects that don’t match any of your examples.

For reference, the example on the above guide shows you should create this redirect:

^/\d{4}/\d{2}/\d{2}/(.*)

And that you should enable the regular expression option. It would be useful if you read the guide that I referenced.

I tried that one:

Source: ^/\d{4}/\d{2}/\d{2}/.*?/(.*)
Target: /$1/

as well, but then the newest link is completely broken. The older ones redirect on the main site instead of the specific article they should.

What newest link is completely broken? What do you mean by the older ones redirect on the main site instead of the article?

And yes you′re right I did miss the part to enable the regex option which I did now. But still no success.