Comments on: The Problem with Permalinks http://www.mostlymuppet.com/2007/11/21/the-problem-with-permalinks/ Part Mop. Part Puppet. All Crazy. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:44:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: RSL http://www.mostlymuppet.com/2007/11/21/the-problem-with-permalinks/comment-page-1/#comment-452400 RSL Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:36:29 +0000 http://www.mostlymuppet.com/archives/2007/11/21/the-problem-with-permalinks/#comment-452400 As long as you haven't changed the title slugs of any of yr posts, you should be able to use mod_rewrite to handily forward all the current style permalinks to just the title slug style ones like this: REWRITE_COND %{REQUEST_FILENAME} archives.* REWRITE_RULE archives/\d{4}/\d{2}/\d{2}/(.*) $1 [QSA,L] If this is Greek to you, there's a cheat sheet here: http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/mod_rewrite-cheat-sheet/ and Googling mod_rewrite has a ton of information but those two lines should do what you want. As far as switching domains, you'll prolly want to keep mostlymuppet.com registered for a while too and leave a rewrite rule that looks for those archive old-style permalinks first, redirects them with the new slugs _and_ a new domain, which you'd just tack on the front of the redirect like so... REWRITE_RULE archives/\d{4}/\d{2}/\d{2}/(.*) http://newdomain.com/$1 [QSA,L] then have a catchall that redirects everything else [which should be correct still] to the new domain. Lemme know if that doesn't work or you need more help. :) Happy thanksgiving! As long as you haven’t changed the title slugs of any of yr posts, you should be able to use mod_rewrite to handily forward all the current style permalinks to just the title slug style ones like this:

REWRITE_COND %{REQUEST_FILENAME} archives.*
REWRITE_RULE archives/\d{4}/\d{2}/\d{2}/(.*) $1 [QSA,L]

If this is Greek to you, there’s a cheat sheet here: http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/mod_rewrite-cheat-sheet/ and Googling mod_rewrite has a ton of information but those two lines should do what you want.

As far as switching domains, you’ll prolly want to keep mostlymuppet.com registered for a while too and leave a rewrite rule that looks for those archive old-style permalinks first, redirects them with the new slugs _and_ a new domain, which you’d just tack on the front of the redirect like so…

REWRITE_RULE archives/\d{4}/\d{2}/\d{2}/(.*) http://newdomain.com/$1 [QSA,L]

then have a catchall that redirects everything else [which should be correct still] to the new domain. Lemme know if that doesn’t work or you need more help. :) Happy thanksgiving!

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