Title: Help changing Permalinks structure
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Help changing Permalinks structure

 *  [sren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sren/)
 * (@sren)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-changing-permalinks-structure/)
 * I would like toi change permalinks from “/%postname%” to the commonly used “/%
   year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/”.
    I’m not sure if I should simply change 
   it at the WP panel, and leave the rest to WP. My main concern is if I’m going
   to get a lot of 404’s from the search engine spiders, and my indexation process
   with them has to start all over again. Anyone can give me some hints on how to
   do this, or perhaps I should keep the permalinks as “/%postname%” and avoid problems?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-changing-permalinks-structure/#post-318373)
 * Permalink changes are done in the admin panel > Options > Permalinks by typing
   in the new structure and hitting “Update”. The rest is done by WP 🙂
 * Links to your old URIs would result in 404, unless you manually set up some .
   htaccess rules to redirect the old addresses to the new one.
 * Search engines? I don’t know if they get a 404… (never really interested in this
   stuff, and one day discovered my nickname here gets quite highly ranked 🙂 But
   one thing is for sure: it will take some time until the SEs will index your new
   URIs.
 *  Thread Starter [sren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sren/)
 * (@sren)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-changing-permalinks-structure/#post-318399)
 * Thanks moshu, great hints as always 🙂
    Do you think there’re some drawbacks 
   if I leave “/%postname%” ? I’ve been reading that setting the permalinks like
   this is sort of “deprecated”.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-changing-permalinks-structure/#post-318405)
 * I am not a SEO experts by no means.
    You know as well as I do that on the net
   you can find about anything at least one “pro” opinion” and one “con”. It’s not
   what was said – but _who_ did say it? 😉
 * If the post titles (and the slugs) are good, informative, descriptive – I don’t
   see why would it be wrong (or “deprecated”). But again, I know nothing about 
   SE and I don’t care about them.
 *  [sguler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sguler/)
 * (@sguler)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-changing-permalinks-structure/#post-318501)
 * I also changed my permalink structure, but found a plugin redirecting old urls
   to new ones.When someone come from google to my old pages ,they are redirected
   to new url.
 * [http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/](http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/)
 * and click to try:
    [http://www.racingvideoz.com/2005/12/11/ferrari-f430-top-gear-video](http://www.racingvideoz.com/2005/12/11/ferrari-f430-top-gear-video)
 *  [utopiad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/utopiad/)
 * (@utopiad)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-changing-permalinks-structure/#post-318682)
 * I had more or less the same problem but I made a custom 404 page rerouting everybody
   to the route of my blog.
 * [http://www.gumball-3000.com/rally/](http://www.gumball-3000.com/rally/)
 * Try it with any non existing page. Should work fine.

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