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Redirect wordpress from /%post_id%/%postname%/ to /blog/%postname%/
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Hi what is the code to redirect wordpress blog from site.com/%post_id%/%postname%/ to site.com/blog/%postname%/ We are moving the site to a new server and new url structure.
Thanks in advance
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Hi Tim, thanks for your help.
Yes wordpress will be installed in a folder /blog/
So it should be quite simple to do this redirect!
Regards Tai
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First off, I would imagine you need your wordpress installation to be inside a /blog/ directory on your server, unless you can do some fancy redirect.
Secondly, in order to change the URL structure from post id / post name. You can do this in your wordpress settings.
Go to -> Settings -> Permalinks.
You will need to select a custom structure, something like
/%postname%/or if you wish to keep hold of the ID
/%postname%-%post_id%/Then save your settings.
Hopefully that does the trick.
Cheers
Tim
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