hi i have used using joomla based in my site but latter on i migrate the site into wordpress based, i have more than 10.000 live link url right now i only create the most trafic refer and direct it using redirect 301 via htacess, i have write about 200 line to redirect from old url to new url in htacess, i know its kind imposible for me to make all 10.000 url only using htacess thus i only create only 200 lines url and i figure that 200 url are the most trafic coming to my site and i think it was fine i hoping i will getting all my trafic , my prediction at least my traffic are drop about 20% thats will be fine latter on after 2 weeks i login to my G analytic and see the trafic site and what a surprised my traffic are drop below 80% and when i see on G webmaster i look in error page its shown about 9000 url missing i reallized it imposible to make all 10.000 links direct url in htacess, so can you sugest me the best way to getting back my old trafic , and just for note all my links from old and new link are completely have different structure and path because the old are using joomla and the new site using wordpress please your advice and your experience thanks
whether or not you can use a single line of redirection code for the entire site depends on how the old urls were and how the new ones are. if it is just the file extension that changed, for example from php to asp or html, then there is no need to do one line at a time. however, if the urls itself changed, like www.oldsite/my-first-article to www.oldsite/myfirstarticle, then you are out of luck. i would suggest you to post your old url and the new url which will help figure out the best way to do it.