Safely adjust Url`s or to late?

  • thomaskri

    (@thomaskri)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hello WordPress community

    Hope you all doing well

    I have a question regarding url links, can’t find a clear answer on Google search

    I build a ecommerce website on WordPress(wp), I didn’t install the Google site kit tracking-tag yet, and  opt to discourage search engines to index the pages, though the site has been published(live) as shown in WP.

    Now I want to change the url`s(product/category, can I still do this safely without messing up the links structure or applying 301 redirects?

    Regards,

    Thomas

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    You will do this change via the base settings on the permalinks settings page? Yes, it’s safe to change, though doing so without accompanying 301 redirects will mean any old URLs out in the wild, external to your site, will then go 404. You will also lose any accumulated SEO “juice” the old URLs may have built up. It doesn’t sound like either of these would be significant at this point.

    URLs that WP generates will all be handled correctly, but if you have any manually created URLs in post or page content, they will not reflect a change in permalink settings. You can use the Better Search and Replace plugin to help ensure nothing was missed.

    It’s always best to do a change like this sooner rather than later. If you delay, 301 redirects become a near necessity. However, if all URLs change in the same manner, setting up a 301 redirect rule in .htaccess is relatively simple.

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