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Advanced Permalinks is a WordPress plugin that extends the default permalink functionality and allows you to create different permalink structures for each post on your site. This is particularly useful when migrating an old permalink structure to a new one.

For example, your site currently displays posts like

/2007/05/06/this-is-my-post

But you'd like to make it:

/reviews/this-is-my-post

Your only choice here is to create 301 redirections for each existing post and change the permalinks for everything. With Advanced Permalinks you can configure your site to keep all its existing permalinks, but to use a different permalink structure for new posts.

/2007/05/06/this-is-my-old-post
/reviews/this-is-my-post

No 301 redirections are needed and all incoming links remain exactly the same. Perfect!

Features of Advanced Permalinks:

• Create multiple permalink structures for posts
• 301 redirect old permalinks
• Create category-specific permalink structures, whereby posts in a certain category will have a different permalink structure
• Remove the requirement to have a category base
• Change author permalinks
• Allow periods in permalinks - ideal for website migration

Installation

The plugin is simple to install:

1. Download advanced-permalinks.zip
2. Unzip
3. Upload advanced-permalinks directory to your /wp-content/plugins directory
4. Go to the plugin management page and enable the plugin
5. Configure the options from the Options/Permalinks page

You can find full details of installing a plugin on the plugin installation page.

Configuring the plugin

All configuration is made through the standard WordPress permalinks page. When the plugin is enabled you will see some new sub-menu options:

Advanced post permalinks

To assign a different permalink structure to posts you need to have a start and end ID. These IDs reflects that first and last post that you want the structure to apply to.

If you want the structure to apply to all existing posts then enter 0 for the start ID, and -1 for the end ID.

If you want to migrate your permalink structure then you would copy the existing permalink structure and apply this to all existing posts. You would then change the default permalink structure.

Category-specific permalinks

Category-specific permalinks allow a permalink structure to be defined for categories. Any post that belongs to that category will appear on the custom permalink. This is useful for separating different areas of your site.

Other permalinks

You can configure author and category permalinks:

Migration

A migration feature exists which allows you to define old permalink structures that will be redirected to the current permalink structure. You would typically use this if you decided to change your permalink structure, but wanted to have all old permalinks redirected.

Support

Please direct all support questions to the Advanced Permalinks support forum. Any support questions left on this page may not be answered.

Bugs & New Features

A full list of all bugs can be found in the Advanced Permalinks issue tracker.

A full list of all requested features can be found in the Advanced Permalinks feature tracker.

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