Comments on: How To Move Your WordPress Blog The SEO Friendly Way

By: choe

choe — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:13:12 +0000

Thanks for sharing this.

By: Missy

Missy — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:28:20 +0000

Poo…throws this error:
“The page isn’t redirecting properly

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!!

By: Jason Hendricks

Jason Hendricks — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:07:48 +0000

I believe you can but have no way of testing it myself. Try this and let me know:

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

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

By: Missy

Missy — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:18:57 +0000

P.S…Sorry, I only want that url structure for a specific category that I want to appear to be separate from the blog… : )

By: Missy

Missy — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:16:32 +0000

Is there even a way to do this?

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!!

By: Bryan Lee

Bryan Lee — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:09:32 +0000

Jason, thanks for your advice. I forgot to look back to see your response before I went forward with the redirection plugin. If I read your response it would have saved me alot of headache I basically made a couple sets of redirection entries:

/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.

By: Jason Hendricks

Jason Hendricks — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:37:17 +0000

Hi Marina, it’s actually a custom theme.

By: Devojke

Devojke — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:19:03 +0000

thanks for post, a have one question, is this default theme, or what is her name?

Thanks

Marina

By: Jason Hendricks

Jason Hendricks — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:15:13 +0000

That’s it exactly Kartal, except you need to make sure you include http in the target, so it would be:

Source URL: /(\d*)/(\d*)/(.*).html

Target URL: http://example.com/$3/

Nice work!

By: Kartal Yüksel

Kartal Yüksel — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:19:18 +0000

Hi Jason,

I catch your post while looking for regex. I know you can answer or confirm, because the first comment in this post seems really similar to my question.

I want to redirect all links in my site:

from: http://example/2010/05/test-this.html
to: http://example.com/test-this.html
or better
to http://exmaple.com/test-this/

can this be the solution

source: /(\d*)/(\d*)/(.*).html
target: example.com/$3/

or what?

thanx in advance,