Title: Supporting Multiple Permalink styles?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Supporting Multiple Permalink styles?

 *  [jclark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jclark/)
 * (@jclark)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/supporting-multiple-permalink-styles/)
 * I’m in the process of migrating my existing blog to WordPress (2.0.4). I will
   be using the “Date and Time Based” standard permalink option, i.e., `http://jclark.
   org/weblog/2006/08/18/sample-post/`. However, on my existing blog, I use category-
   based permalinks, such as `http://jclark.org/weblog/category/sample-post/`. I
   want to continue supporting existing links to my content, but I don’t want to
   set up 300+ permanent redirects.
 * With my permalink structure set to date-and-time, category style links aren’t
   recognized (404). With my permalink structure set to a custom structure `/%category%/%
   postname%/`, all my category links work, but date-based permalinks aren’t recognized(
   404).
 * How can get WP to recognize category-style permalinks, while use date-and-time
   permalinks as the default? I’ve looked for plugins, and haven’t found anything
   so far. I’d be willing to hack at the code and/or build a plugin, but I’m still
   poking around the edges of the codebase, trying to understand how everything 
   work.
 * Also: Links to the categories themselves are fine, it’s just category-style permalinks
   to posts I’m having an issue with. I’d even settle for a plugin that finds the
   linked post and 301’s to the new url… I just don’t want to orphan my old permalinks
 * Thanks,
    Jason Clark

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 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/supporting-multiple-permalink-styles/#post-438088)
 * I *think* this is going to be a case for .htaccess redirects. I’m not very good
   with that kind of thing, but there are others who post here who are and can probably
   help.
 *  Thread Starter [jclark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jclark/)
 * (@jclark)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/supporting-multiple-permalink-styles/#post-438090)
 * Thanks vkaryl. I considered .htaccess redirects, but the only way I can think
   to do that is to have one for each of my (300+) posts (yikes).
 * For example, `/weblog/tech/foo/` might now be `/weblog/2005/02/07/foo/`, but `/
   weblog/tech/bar/` might now be `/weblog/2004/09/30/bar/`. WP can understand the
   old category-permalinks, but only when I make that my permalink style, at the
   expense of date-permalinks. I just need some way to get it to recognize both.

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 * Last reply from: [jclark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jclark/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/supporting-multiple-permalink-styles/#post-438090)
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