I use these tips a lot!

You are a life saver. I have spent the last 3 weeks trying to figure out how to redirect my year old site using the redirection plugin and despite a lot of help from a lot of people simply couldn’t figure it out. Your post, images, explanation and responses to comments are possibly the best resource for people who are using the redirect plugin. Thank you very much for putting it out there. Mucho appreciated.

Jawwad

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.”

The url shown is keeping the /blog/ path as well as the /yyyy/mm/dd/

It’s like it doesn’t like when I try to remove the dates…I have tried a ton of variations and if I use:

http://mysite.com/$1/$2/$3/specific-cat/$4/

I can drop the /blog/ and have it work…but take out 1,2, or 3 and pffftt…

I would even be happy if I could rearrange them i.e.. http://mysite.com/specific-cat/$1/$2/$3/$4/ but it doesn’t like that eithier… : (

Thanks you so much for helping it’s been driving me nuts any ideas are super appreciated!!

Source URL: /blog/(\d*)/(\d*)/(\d*)/specific-cat/(.*)/

Target URL: http://mysite.com/specific-cat/$4/

Take this:
http://mysite.com/blog/2010/05/12/specific-cat/a-random-post/

To this:
http://mysite.com/specific-cat/a-random-post/

This is my permalink structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%category%/%postname%/

Thank you for any insight!!

/blog/tag/*
/blog/[year]/*
/blog/[category]/*

I then went through the 404 errors module of the redirection plugin to see if I missed any others. It was definitely a learning experience.