Permalink structure on blog migration

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  doipfn · Member · Jul 19, 2017 at 8:41 am

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  We have an existing self-hosting website. Permalink structure of the site is something like http://sitename.example.com/2017/07/my-awesome-article

  Now we are going to give up self-hosted site and move the blog hosted in wordpress.com. We want to keep links to previous articles. I expected it should be easy, but I cannot find control on permalink structure on WP.com blogsites and it would be something like http://sitename.example.com/2017/07/19/my-awesome-article

  Is there any recommended migration scheme on such case?

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  doipfn · Member · Jul 19, 2017 at 8:42 am

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  Just for clarification: current url don’t contain date, and WP.com does.

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  gemmacevans · Member · Jul 20, 2017 at 10:15 am

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  Hi doipfn,

  I cannot find control on permalink structure on WP.com blogsites

  Although it’s possible to change the slug of a post or page (for example /post-title/ on WordPress.com, there aren’t any settings for changing the structure of the permalink itself. This option is only available on self hosted WordPress.org sites.

  When content is imported to WordPress.com, the importer rewrites each permalink to use our permalink structure. Although there isn’t a redirect feature for these cases, our system will try to redirect the visitor to the right place. However, it may not be accurate every time.