Title: Permalinks Regex Redirection
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Permalinks Regex Redirection

 *  [RomB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/romb/)
 * (@romb)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-regex-redirection/)
 * I recently changed my Permalinks from:
 * > [http://www.example.com/blog/2011/01/01/slug-goes-here](http://www.example.com/blog/2011/01/01/slug-goes-here)(
   > where “2011/01/01” can be any digit)
 * to
 * >  [http://www.example.com/blog/slug-goes-here](http://www.example.com/blog/slug-goes-here)
 * When I use Urban Giraffe’s 301 direction I’ve tried to use the following regular
   expression to remove the date
 * > /blog/(d*)/(d*)/(d*)/(.*) => /blog/$4
 * I do not get my desired markup. In fact, it doesn’t do a redirect at all. Am 
   I missing something? Or am I supposed to make multiple redirects? Because if 
   this is the case that didn’t help either.
 * Any help is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks ahead of time!

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-regex-redirection/#post-2143568)
 * Interesting… the [Urban Giraffe page](http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/)
   seems to indicate that your regex is correct but if I were writing that regex
   under ‘normal’ string parsing circumstances I’d do this `/blog/([0-9]*)/([0-9]*)/([
   0-9]*)/(.*) => /blog/$4` instead.
 *  Thread Starter [RomB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/romb/)
 * (@romb)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-regex-redirection/#post-2143579)
 * Wow. You are too awesome! I didn’t think a normal regex parse would work. It 
   works great!
 * I can’t thank you enough.
 *  [rballman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rballman/)
 * (@rballman)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-regex-redirection/#post-2143723)
 * Can you see what is wrong with mine?
 * From:
 * `/profile.aspx?mid=555`
 * To:
 * `/member-page/`
 * I am using:
 * `/profile.aspx?mid=([0-9]*) => /member-page/`

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 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)
 * [regex](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/regex/)

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 * Last reply from: [rballman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rballman/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-regex-redirection/#post-2143723)
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