The reason i'm posting here because may be any user have switched from a genreal website to wordpress and had to do this. I have a website (say http://example.com) with more than 100 articles and urls for articles appears such as - http://example.com/001-article-first-post.php http://example.com/002-article-second-post.php now I'm moving the website to wordpress with caregory base with user friendly url (permalink), so the url might look like- http://example.com/action/first-post.php http://example.com/adventure/second-post.php I want - When a user visit http://example.com/001-article-first-post.php is redirected to http://example.com/action/first-post (One of the reason is links can be bookmarked and indexed by google and appears on search pages) Please point me to the right direction. Thanks
The Redirection plugin by John Godley is about the best thing you'll find. You still need to do some setup.
Why pay when this can be done for free? @OP, try 301 redirects using .htaccess file (Assuming you are using Apache Server) I know this is hard for a bunch of URLs, but it's the most convenient and safest way to redirect. You can remove the redirection after search engines indexes the new pages or just keep it there forever.
I'm curious on how to do this. I just bought a domain name that has a PR of 4, and nothing from the guys old website will be implemented into my website I'm creating. So I want all of his old URLS to 301 redirect to the homepage (problem is that I don't know any of the old URLS), will this save the Page Rank?. If not what should I do?