Permalink Plain change to Date & name. Will Plain still work?

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  jwfisher · Member · May 1, 2017 at 7:25 pm

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  I am using Permalink “Plain”, and wish to improve my SEO rating. I want to change to “Date and name”.
  But I have hundreds or thousands of “Plain” permalinks embedded in posts from the last 10 years.
  So lets say I change to this permalink format:
  http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-blog/2017/05/01/sample-post/
  and that works fine.
  But then I have an embedded post in my blog (or somebody else has out on the net, where I probably have tens of thousands of links to my blog referenced) and somebody clicks on this one:
  http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-blog/?p=5

  Will it still work? In other words are these two links the same?:
  http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-blog/?p=5
  http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-blog/2010/01/01/my_fifth_post/
  (these aren’t actual posts, just hypothetical)
  And can I just change the Permalink Settings, see what happens,, and if it doesn’t work like I want, then change back?

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  garysixtyeight · Member · May 1, 2017 at 7:34 pm

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  Hi there,

  There are two different versions of WordPress.

  These forums only provide support for the WordPress.com version. It’s not possible to change permalink structures on WordPress.com sites.

  Your site appears to use the self-hosted version from WordPress.org.

  If you need support for a self-hosted site, please try posting your question in the WordPress.org support forums.

  To learn about the differences between the two versions of WordPress (.com vs.org), please see this guide.

  Good luck!