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Change of link structure?

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Submitted by merlik on May 7, 2007 - 5:17am in

I have had my blog for about 2 years now. Not a lot of posts and it isn't too popular, but I would like to change my link structure so that is just the Post Title and not date+post title. As long as I go through and find all trackback links, how bad of a thing would this be to do?


a bit of work

I've been doing something similar lately. Someone wrote about a "permalinks redirect" plugin for WordPress, and I saved the info somewhere but haven't found it yet. If you can't wait, what you can do is a write a chunk of .htaccess Redirect code to redirect date-based links to their non-date equivalent slugs. It's not exactly programming to do this, but you do have to understand what regular expressions are.

I'll see if I can't come up with a simple tutorial on this sometime later this week. Remind me in the comments here if I haven't done so by Friday night. Of course, if I find the WP plugin URL, I'll post that as well. The tutorial will be more generic.

Thanks very much. I am not

Thanks very much. I am not that great with .htaccess yet so a tutorial would be very good. And I have some time, so it anything you can do will help. Thanks again.

will do

Alright, i'll flex my .htaccess muscles and try to remember my code.

I've used the permalink

I've used the permalink redirect plugin on many occasions and it works very well.

do you have

Ryan, do you have the URL for merlik? i saved the URL somewhere but can't find it.

What you need is Dean's

What you need is Dean's permalinks migration plugin (if you're using WP) : http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/

that's it

Thanks Franky, that's what I was thinking of but couldn't find the URL or remember the name :)

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