When you change WP > Admin >Permalink Setting can it just be for going forward

  • Hopefully simple:

    If we change WP > Admin > Permalink Setting can it just be for going forward for new posts?
    – Or –
    Does the Permalink Setting > Common Settings > Post Name change every page?

    Background: Old site has “Day and Name” just looking to make a clean break at the beginning of 2019 and change to “Postname” and leave old posts as old convention.

    Thanks,
    -Gravy

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    See if this points you in the right direction:
    https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/20546/how-to-change-wordpress-pemalinks-for-future-posts

    Thread Starter gravymatt

    (@gravymatt)

    Hi,

    Thanks @t-p for the link, I reviewed it but they were more of the mind to setup the 301 redirects for entire site, which I agree would be a streamlined solution. But, that would create a problem for reporting on the traffic of the pages which now would show up with 2 URLs (old and new) in Google Analytics.

    If we had the ability

    • To just stop using the old permalink structure and leave that intact for historical posts
    • Start the SEO friendly permalink structure on Jan 1, 2019 (or sooner)

    That would be ideal to keep reporting on synced.

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