I’m on my way out the door, headed to my daughter’s first trip to Coney Island and the Circus, so I won’t go into all the reasons behind why I’m changing the structure of my URLs, let’s suffice it to say that I’ve been thinking about it for quite a while and, after quite a bit of research, it seems like the right move to make.
What change am I making? I’m merely taking the date out of my URLs. The problem is that I don’t want to lose all my outside links and Google traffic by changing my permalink structure. I already showed you how to migrate a WordPress site to an entirely new domain and redirect your URLs, this is just another quick customization along the same lines.
Old URL structure: http://jamespoling.com/2009/01/moving-your-wordpress-blog-to-a-new-domain-without-losing-your-incoming-traffic/
New URL structure: http://jamespoling.com/moving-your-wordpress-blog-to-a-new-domain-without-losing-your-incoming-traffic/
Step 1: Go into Settings > Permalink Settings and set up your custom permalink structure. It should look like this:
Step 2: Either create or edit your .htaccess file on your server. (You’ll need an FTP client to access and upload this file).
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- Inside your .htaccess file add this line of code
RedirectMatch permanent ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/([a-z0-9\-/]+) http://jamespoling.com/$1 - Upload your .htaccess file to your root blog directory
- That’s it! Sit back and enjoy
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