404 Errors & Redirection

[csmm]

Hi,

I'm working with someone who recently had two websites redesigned. The old permalink structure consisted of domain/year/month/date/post-name. Their developer changed the new permalink structure to domain/post-name, but apparently he didn't redirect the old URLs to the new ones so we're finding that links from external sites result in 404 errors (once I remove the date in the URL, the links work fine). Each site has 3-4 years worth of blog posts, so there are quite a few that would need to be changed. I was thinking of using the Redirection plugin - would that be the best way to fix this sitewide on both sites?Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Carolina

[Christy-Correll]

Hi Carolina, has your question been answered?

[mememax]

Hi Carolina, if you can send to me even on pvm a list of some examples of the url you'll need to redirect I'll try to help you. However if you publish here the URI (so your domain won't be shown) the whole community may try to help you.

[csmm]

Thanks for the response. It turns out that there are going to be other pages that will need to be redirected as well.

[mememax]

Hi Carolina if that's the ONLY thing you've changed you may consider adding just one line using wildcards in your htaccess and you're done without any plugin.

Something like this may work:

RewriteRule ^201(0-3)/(.+)/(.*) http://www.domain.com/$2 [R=301,L]