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WordPress – Rewrite old URLs – SEO

We’ve changed our permalink-structure from /archive/%post_id% to /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ for better SEO.

Now we have the problem, that all old URLs on Facebook for example are pointing to a 404 page.

Is it possible to rewrite the old URLs to the new format?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    Added the following code to my themes functions.php

    // Adding a new rule
/**
 * Adds a new rewrite rule.
 *
 * @param array $rules Existing rewrite rules.
 * @return array (Maybe) modified list of rewrites.
*/
function wpdocs_insert_rewrite_rules( $rules ) {
    $newrules = array();
    $newrules['archive/(d*)$'] = 'index.php?postname=$matches[1]&post_id=$matches[2]';
    return $newrules + $rules;
}
add_filter( 'rewrite_rules_array','wpdocs_insert_rewrite_rules' );

// Adding the id var so that WP recognizes it
function wpdocs_insert_query_vars( $vars ) {
    array_push( $vars, 'id' );
    return $vars;
}
add_filter( 'query_vars','wpdocs_insert_query_vars' );

  2. 0

    Will be better to make redirection 301 from old to news.
    Several rules in the .htaccess should work.

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  3. 0

    I think you can use plugin “Simple 301 Redirects” to redirects from your old URLs to your new URLs.
    You can dowload it at here https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-301-redirects/

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  4. 0

    If you need to 301 old URLs to the new, a WordPress plugin called ‘Eggplant 301 Redirects’ works really well.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/eps-301-redirects/

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