Removing dates from wordpress blog URL
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Hi all,
Ours is website's blog is built with wordpress. We used to have the below URL pattern like may other websites: www.website.com/blog/2016/04/10/topic-on-how-to-optimise-blog.
Recently we removed the date and made the URL pattern to just like: www.website.com/blog/topic-on-how-to-optimise-blog
All the links have been generated with new URLs across the blog. Still all the old URLs have been reported as crawl errors in search console. I am wondering will there be any auto redirect formula to redirect all the old URLs to new URLs.
Thanks
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Hi,
You could add the following code to your .htaccess to redirect all dated urls to non-dated version:
RedirectMatch 301 /([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.*)$ http://www.**domain**.com/$4
Change domain.com with your domain name.
This should create a redirect from http://www.website.com/blog/2016/04/10/topic-on-how-to-optimise-blog to www.website.com/blog/topic-on-how-to-optimise-blog (and every similar situation).
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Apache
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Hi,
In some cases your SEO Plugins should have made sure to update the redirects. But what you could do is a check on if there is a number/number in your URL and have it rewritten/redirect to make sure the old URLS will be redirected to the new ones. In the end the only thing you'd have to do is make sure the dates are stripped.
Are you using NGINX or Apache?
Martijn.
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