Title: Permalink SOS
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Permalink SOS

 *  [crazymikesapps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crazymikesapps/)
 * (@crazymikesapps)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-sos/)
 * Hello,
 * I am in need of dire permalink help.
 * After years of poor permalink practices, i.e. deleting categories, changing permalink
   structure without implementing redirects I am trying to do it the correct way.
 * Here is my problem.
 * I have created a whole new taxonomy per Yoast suggestions and I am using the 
   WP-SEO plugin.
 * About a week ago I checked the box in the WP-SEO plugin to strip out the /category
   from all category permalinks, but did not redirects, should redirects have been
   done first?
 * My guess is yes.
 * Today I implemented 140 redirects using (from) category/old category to /new 
   category name example: old category: category/broken-fords (rewrites to) broken-
   cars, while most rewrites work, the current stripping of the category makes all
   current rewrites useless.
 * My best guess is to uncheck the box on the WP-SEO plugin, then add the category
   to the “to” location and after the redirects are completed then remove category
   from the path or not, please help?
 * all advice accepted.
 * thank you
 * Mike

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 *  [Jess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcull76/)
 * (@jcull76)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-sos/#post-3394789)
 * You should probably ask the plugin’s author on the wp-seo support forum:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo)

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 * Last reply from: [Jess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcull76/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-sos/#post-3394789)
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