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.

Mat Lipe

OnPoint Plugins

<h3>Change the domain on your site with one click.</h3>
<p>Goes through entire site and replaces all instances of an old URL with a new one. Used most often when changing the domain of your site.</p>
<p>Automatically detects and handles special domain circumstances to give you an accurate update every time without side effects.</p>
<p><strong>Developed and supported by <a href="https://onpointplugins.com/go-live-update-urls/" rel="nofollow ugc">OnPoint Plugins</a>.</strong></p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Database table by table selection.</li>
<li>Updates serialized data in core tables.</li>
<li>Updates encoded URL.</li>
<li>Easy to use admin page – which may be found under Tools.</li>
<li>Works on both multisite and single site installs.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Updates Entire Site Including</h3>
<ul>
<li>Posts</li>
<li>Pages</li>
<li>Image URLs</li>
<li>Excerpts</li>
<li>Post meta data</li>
<li>Custom post types</li>
<li>Widgets and widget data</li>
<li>Options and settings</li>
<li>And much more</li>
</ul>
<h3>Domain Update Process</h3>
<p>Full step-by-step instructions for a changing a site’s domain <a href="https://onpointplugins.com/how-to-change-your-domain-name-on-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">may be found here</a>.</p>
<h3>Included Language Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li>English (en_US).</li>
<li>French (fr_FR).</li>
<li>German (de_DE).</li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Developers</h3>
<p>Developer docs <a href="https://onpointplugins.com/go-live-update-urls/developer-docs-go-live-update-urls/" rel="nofollow ugc">may be found here</a>.</p>
<h3>Troubleshooting</h3>
<p>Troubleshooting information <a href="https://onpointplugins.com/go-live-update-urls/go-live-update-urls-troubleshooting/" rel="nofollow ugc">may be found here</a>.</p>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<p>Send pull requests via the <a href="https://github.com/lipemat/go-live-update-urls/" rel="nofollow ugc">Github Repo</a></p>
<h3>Go PRO</h3>
<p>Our <a href="https://onpointplugins.com/product/go-live-update-urls-pro/?utm_source=readme&utm_campaign=gopro&utm_medium=dot-org" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO version</a> brings additional functionality to this plugin. Check out <a href="https://onpointplugins.com/go-live-update-urls/go-live-update-urls-pro-demo/?utm_source=demo&utm_campaign=gopro&utm_medium=dot-org" rel="nofollow ugc">the demo</a> to see if the PRO version is useful for you.</p>
<ul>
<li>Updates database tables created by plugins.</li>
<li>Database tables are organized into simple intuitive sections.</li>
<li>Ability to choose between tables or sections.</li>
<li>Ability to convert relative URL into absolute URL.</li>
<li>Updates serialized data across any table.</li>
<li>Updates encoded URL across any table.</li>
<li>Updates JSON data across any table.</li>
<li>Ability to test URL changes before running them.</li>
<li>URL testing report is provided for peace of mind.</li>
<li>Option to fix common mistakes automatically when entering a URL.</li>
<li>View and use history of your site’s address.</li>
<li>Accessible update history including count and location of updated URL. <strong>New</strong></li>
<li>Predictive URL automatically fill in the “Old URL” and “New URL.”</li>
<li>Real time reporting of count and location of URL which will be updated.</li>
<li>Report of count and location of URL which were updated.</li>
<li>WP-CLI support for updating URL from the command line.</li>
<li>Priority support with access to members only support area.</li>
</ul>


Go Live Update Urls

Change the domain on your site with one click.

Backwards Compatible Permalinks vs Go Live Update Urls