Dmytro Shteflyuk

<p>Permalink option of WordPress <code>%category%</code> has one great limitation –<br />
when this option is selected, WordPress uses category with lowest ID for<br />
permalink generation. This plugin is intented to bypass WordPress permalinks<br />
limitation and allows you to select category for permalink generation.</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>If you have any suggestions, found a bug, or just wanted to say “thank<br />
you”,– feel free to email me <a href="mailto:kpumuk@kpumuk.info" rel="nofollow ugc">kpumuk@kpumuk.info</a>.<br />
Promise, I will answer every email I received.</p>
<p>If you want to contribute your code, see the <em>Development</em> section under<br />
the <em>Other Notes</em> tab.</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>Sources of this plugin are available both in SVN and Git:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://svn.wp-plugins.org/scategory-permalink/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress SVN repository</a></li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/kpumuk/scategory-permalink/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Feel free to check them out, make your changes and send me patches.<br />
Promise, I will apply every patch (of course, if they add a value to the<br />
product). Email for patches, suggestions, or bug reports:<br />
<a href="mailto:kpumuk@kpumuk.info" rel="nofollow ugc">kpumuk@kpumuk.info</a>.</p>


sCategory Permalink

Plugin allows to select category which will be used to generate permalink on post edit page. Use custom permalink option %scategory%.

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.

sCategory Permalink vs Backwards Compatible Permalinks