Redirect wp.com to self-hosted with different permalink structure?

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  thomaslloyd22 · Member · Nov 18, 2015 at 12:09 pm

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  I’m in the process of migrating our blog from wp.com to a self-hosted instance.

  I want the URL structure of the new blog to be http://example.com/blog/sample-post, although I understand the wp.com redirect service requires the URL structure to remain the same on the self-hosted instance.

  Is a way around this to simply create another redirect in the self-hosted install that redirects all posts with the format http://example.com/blog/2015/11/sample-post/ to http://example.com/blog/post-name? Or is there another way to do this?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2015 at 8:38 pm

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  That is not possible. The permalink structure must be exactly the same structure for a site redirect to work. https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/

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  airodyssey · Member · Nov 19, 2015 at 8:58 pm

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  You can try asking at http://wordpress.org/support if there is a way to redirect users from http://example.com/blog/2015/11/sample-post/ to http://example.com/blog/post-name on your self-hosted blog’s end.

  (P.S. Hi timethief)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2015 at 9:00 pm

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  @airodyssey
  I is so good to see your gravatar here. I hope you are well and happy :) and I thank you for your assistance here.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2015 at 9:02 pm

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  P.S. Here is the missing t. You will laugh at this. I am using a bilingual keyboard (English and French) and trying to learn a new language in my old age. Maybe I should just give it up and go back to knitting.

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  airodyssey · Member · Nov 19, 2015 at 9:05 pm

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  Actually, I just realized something…

  Site Redirect is intended to users who change addresses completely (for example to redirect traffic from xyz.wordpress.com to a self-hosted site at somethingelse.com).

  If your address has always been “blog.whatusersdo.com”, and if you’re going to continue using that address, I don’t think you need a Site Redirect upgrade. Once you change your settings and once blog.whatusersdo.com directs to your self-hosted blog, you’re good to go. You might still want to go to the WordPress.org forums as I mentioned earlier (otherwise, your old links which include the date will stop working).

  (P.S. Timethief: lol :-)