Will changing permalink structure create 404’s

  • larklibby

    (@larklibby)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hey

    Quick question.

    I currently have a blog with around 200 posts. I’m wanting to change the structure of the post urls to: category/postname.

    It’s currently just: /postname.

    So, I know how to change it, but my question is will the old url (/postname) automatically redirect to the new url structure /category/postname if I change it?

    Or will it create 404’s that need a redirect?

    Thanks,
    Karl

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  • Jason LeMahieu (MadtownLems)

    (@madtownlems)

    3 years, 6 months ago

    The answer is actually something in the middle.

    WordPress won’t keep a backlog of all the different permalinks you’ve used for posts and redirect them for you.

    However, WordPress tries to be smart when figuring out what someone is trying to access. If the post name matches, it will likely be able to find them and serve them up as intended. Unfortunately the specific nature of if it will work for you depends on all your other rewrite rules (from themes and plugins), so I can’t give you a definitive answer. I’d encourage you to back up your site, and test it out. You can always flip it back 🙂

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