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.

Lingering WordPress Questions
– Can you tell me why just having WordPress in a subdirectory is so ill advised? I did it successfully here https://www.935Jefferson.com , quick site, the server/WordPress threw a lot of 500 Errors though which might have been due to the sub directory or the htaccess
– What make the root install so much better, is it because there is only 1 htaccess to contend with?

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Not to be rude or nothing, but have you submitted a support ticket with your host company as well? They might be able to help point you where your backups are stored (hopefully). This may or not help https://smallbusiness.chron.com/restore-wordpress-onto-bluehost-62915.html

Yeah, we have an index/homepage that came with the wordpress template that is not a post or page and it pulls in the 12345 on the page title, because it is not set by WordPress SEO by Yoast