Problem with links after site re-direction

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  clodietalblog · Member · Feb 15, 2021 at 7:23 am

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  We have re-directed our site from wordpress.com to a new domain. This has cause two problems with links:

  1) In the original site, links to posts included dates, for example:
  https://clodietaldan.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/post-name
  in the new site, the link structure excludes dates, for example:
  https://clodietalblog.com/post-name

  Now, if people find a post in a search engine, they are redirected to a non-existent page:

  https://clodietalblog.com/2020/02/06/post-name

  2. We have changed category names, and now former category pages are being re-directed to non-existent pages.

  What can be done with these problems?

  Many thanks!

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  aleone89 · Staff · Feb 15, 2021 at 11:20 am

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  Hello there,

  Many thanks for reaching out.

  > 1) In the original site, links to posts included dates, for example:
  https://clodietaldan.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/post-name
  in the new site, the link structure excludes dates, for example:
  https://clodietalblog.com/post-name
  > 2. We have changed category names, and now former category pages are being re-directed to non-existent pages.

  It looks like https://clodietalblog.com/ is a self-hosted site, so overall the support we can provide is limited.

  You would need to install a 301 redirects plugin to redirect old URLs to new URLs, something like this plugin here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-301-redirects/

  I hope this helps.