Redirectinf article URLs to URL generated by wordpress permalink

CMS & WordPress
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Hello,

I hope somebody can point me to the right direction.

For example, I have a website www.goodarticle.com which was build may be couple of years back using html/css/php. When i view “articlename1” the url shows as www.goodarticle.com/articlename1.php

Now I want to install “Wordpress” in the same domain and transfer all articles. What i understand is using permalink & category the url would be showing something as www.goodarticle.com/categories/articlename1; the earlier url may be indexed by search engine so for sure anyone click on that would be redirecting page not found page. Instead i want to redierect to the new url or article page.

Thanks

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Not creating another thread as situation is bit different but need is still same.

I thought “Redirection” plugin will work. and it does work within the same domain for which it’s been installed.

My requirement is,

I have a website (say http://example.com) with more than 100 articles and urls for articles appears such as -
http://example.com/001-article-first-post.php
http://example.com/002-article-second-post.php

now I’m moving the website to wordpress with caregory base with user friendly url (permalink), so the url might look like-
http://example.com/action/first-post.php
http://example.com/adventure/second-post.php

I want -
When a user visit [COLOR=“Red”]http://example.com/001-article-first-post.php[/COLOR] is redirected to [COLOR=“SeaGreen”]http://example.com/action/first-post.php[/COLOR] automatically

(One of the reason is links can be bookmarked and indexed by google and appears on search pages)

Please point me to the right direction.

Thanks

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You are an angel :slight_smile: thank you so much for sharing the information. I guess this should help.

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[FONT=“Georgia”]I use a plug-in called Redirection to do something similar.

It works well so far, though it’s only been a month.

Maybe it’ll work for you too.

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you can use .htaccess redirect

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Thanks for your reply. will this redirect each and every article to their own new url?

I can design and code website but not much knowledge on Web Mastering. I know .htaccess an important file, so before i try my hand could you please give me some more information what exacly to be done with that file. what code needs to add or delete.

Thanks