Chris A. a11n

<p>Backwards Compatible Permalinks helps prevent 404 errors when switching between permalink structures.</p>
<p>It achieves this by appending a set of backwards compatible post rewrite rules. This ensures posts are still accessible at their previous permalink after the permalink structure is updated.</p>
<h4>Example</h4>
<p>Let’s say your permalink structure is set to “Month and name” and you have a post titled “I Love WordPress.” That particular post would live at <code>https://example.com/2019/03/i-love-wordpress/</code>.</p>
<p>But what if you wanted to switch to the “Post name” permalink structure and have your post live at <code>https://example.com/i-love-wordpress/</code> instead?</p>
<p>You could but this would result in the existing post permalink 404ing when visited. Which is problematic if the previous URL was bookmarked or shared on social media.</p>
<p>With Backwards Compatible Permalinks installed your post would be accessible at both the old and new permalink structures:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>https://example.com/2019/03/i-love-wordpress/</code></li>
<li><code>https://example.com/i-love-wordpress/</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Caveats</h4>
<ul>
<li>This plugin does not work retroactively. i.e. you must have the plugin installed and activated prior to switching permalink structures before backwards compatibility will work.</li>
<li>Currently only standard posts are supported.</li>
<li>Backwards compatibility is not supported between certain permalink structure updates. This is due to a clash between permalink structure regex matching.</li>
<li>Backwards compatibility is only provided between the most recent permalink structure update. i.e. you cannot change your permalink structure 3 times and have backwards compatibility across all 3 structures.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Deactivate or uninstall</h4>
<p>After deactivating or uninstalling this plugin please ensure you visit Settings > Permalinks in the WordPress admin area to flush your rewrite rules.</p>
<h4>Contributing</h4>
<p>Contributions are <a href="https://github.com/aprea/backwards-compatible-permalinks" rel="nofollow ugc">welcomed on GitHub</a>.</p>
<h3>From within WordPress</h3>
<ol>
<li>Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’.</li>
<li>Search for ‘Backwards Compatible Permalinks’.</li>
<li>Activate Backwards Compatible Permalinks from your Plugins page.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Manually</h3>
<ol>
<li>Upload the <code>backwards-compatible-permalinks</code> folder to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory.</li>
<li>Activate the Backwards Compatible Permalinks plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.</li>
</ol>


Backwards Compatible Permalinks

Provides a degree of backwards compatibility when switching between permalink structures.

ivantrendafilov

<p>Bulk Trash by URL helps editors and SEOs quickly clean up content by trashing items based on a list of URLs. Paste your URLs, let the plugin map each URL to a post ID (handles common variations like trailing slashes and marketing query params), select what you want to remove, and process in efficient batches with progress feedback.</p>
<p>Key features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Paste URLs to find matching posts, pages, and custom post types.</li>
<li>Fast URL-to-post mapping in AJAX batches with progress bar.</li>
<li>Select exactly which items to trash before running.</li>
<li>Batched trashing with live progress, pause/resume controls.</li>
<li>Optional completion summary with counts and lists (trashed, failed, no permission, invalid).</li>
<li>Settings to tune performance and limits:
<ul>
<li>Max Page Size (mapping batch size)</li>
<li>Max URLs per run</li>
<li>Toggle completion summary</li>
<li>Optional mode to set matched items to Private instead of Trash</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Built for large lists and long-running jobs. Everything goes to the WordPress Trash, so you can restore or permanently delete as you normally would.</p>
<p>Capabilities & security:</p>
<ul>
<li>Restricted to users who can <code>manage_options</code>.</li>
<li>Nonce-protected AJAX endpoints.</li>
<li>Conservative sanitization and server-side validation.</li>
</ul>
<p>Compatibility notes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Works with sites using pretty permalinks. Mapping relies on WordPress <code>url_to_postid()</code> and common URL variants.</li>
<li>Custom post types are supported if they use public, front-end URLs.</li>
</ul>


Bulk Trash by URL

Bulk‑trash posts, pages and custom post types from pasted URLs. Fast URL mapping, batched processing with pause/resume, and an optional summary.

Backwards Compatible Permalinks vs Bulk Trash by URL