Title: [Plugin: Redirection] Changing permalinks
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Redirection] Changing permalinks

 *  [meryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meryl/)
 * (@meryl)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-changing-permalinks/)
 * Want to change permalinks from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to /%postname%/—
   not clear on how I do this with redirection to ensure all old links get redirected.
   Have 3000 posts. I think if I make the change under Permalinks, it’ll affect .
   htaccess rather than Redirection plug in. Thanks for help.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/)

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 *  [aukirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aukirk/)
 * (@aukirk)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-changing-permalinks/#post-2309461)
 * I have the same question, but would like to take my permalinks from /%year%/%
   monthnum%/%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/
 * I have about 400 posts.
 *  [arossphoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arossphoto/)
 * (@arossphoto)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-changing-permalinks/#post-2309475)
 * I have the same question. I was reading the SEO article at the link below and
   the author suggests changing permalinks to /%postname%/. The author then says:“
   Once you’ve done that, you’ll want to install the Redirection plugin, and make
   sure that under Manage -> Redirection -> Options, making sure both URL Monitoring
   select boxes are set to “Modified posts”. Now you can change those permalinks
   to perfectly SEO’d permalinks without having to do anything else, or worry about
   the search engine consequences.”
 * [http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/](http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/)
 * I only see one select box for “URL Monitoring” under “Options”, and I have set
   this to “Modified posts”. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be working and when
   I navigate to one of the old post urls I still get a 404 Page Not Found.
 * Any advice would be much appreciated?
 *  [arossphoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arossphoto/)
 * (@arossphoto)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-changing-permalinks/#post-2309476)
 * I just figured it out. My first mistake was not checking “regex” when setting
   up the redirect. After I did that it started to work, but I still couldn’t figure
   out the variables. I found some help in the comments in the Redirect tutorial
   here:
 * [http://austingulati.com/2009/01/using-redirection-plugin-wordpress/](http://austingulati.com/2009/01/using-redirection-plugin-wordpress/)
 * I finally got it working correctly with this:
 * Source URL: /(\d*)/(\d*)/([A-Za-z0-9-]*)
 * Target URL: /$3

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-changing-permalinks/#post-2309476)
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