Multiple redirects with .htaccess

[robcub]

Hello,

I have a WordPress site with a Permalink of /%category%/%postname% of over 350 blog posts and I want to change it to just postname /%postname%

I have a few questions.

Is there any quick way to do the redirects? So say I have a category of "fruits" could I put something in the htaccess that would redirect all posts that were originally site.com/fruits/postname to site.com/postname?

And, secondly, it is bad to have too many redirects in an htaccess file? Would 350 slow down the site?

[TimIgoe]

If the postname is staying the same, you'd just need one rule per category to do the redirects - i.e. /category/postname -> /postname - the rule would jsut throw away the category.

[robcub]

Thank Tim. So redirects in .htaccess like this:

redirect 301 /fruits/ http://www.yoursite.com/
redirect 301 /vegetables/ http://www.yoursite.com/

... where "fruits" and "vegetables" are categories will redirect all the individual blog posts from category/blogpost to /blogpost.

[ScallioXTX]

Not quite, as that just redirects the category level but nothing under it. What you'd need to use instead is RedirectMatch, i.e.

/fruits/(.*) http://www.yoursite.com/$1
/vegetables/(.*) http://www.yoursite.com/$1

etc

And of course make sure there aren't any posts called "fruits" or "vegetables" etc, as those would get redirected as well.

[robcub]

Really appreciate you help of this one, Scallio and TimIgoe. I couldn't find this information out by Googling.

Here's what I used and it worked:


RedirectMatch /categoryname1/(.*) http://www.site.com/$1
RedirectMatch /categoryname2/(.*) http://www.site.com/$1
RedirectMatch /uncategorized/(.*) http://www.site.com/$1
etc.

[TimIgoe]

Excellent, glad it worked