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WP PlugIndex currently records Backwards Compatible Permalinks version 0.1.0 as active, updated 7y ago and tested up to WordPress 5.1.
Overview
About this plugin
Backwards Compatible Permalinks helps prevent 404 errors when switching between permalink structures.
It achieves this by appending a set of backwards compatible post rewrite rules. This ensures posts are still accessible at their previous permalink after the permalink structure is updated.
Example
com/2019/03/i-love-wordpress/.
com/i-love-wordpress/ instead?
You could but this would result in the existing post permalink 404ing when visited. Which is problematic if the previous URL was bookmarked or shared on social media.
With Backwards Compatible Permalinks installed your post would be accessible at both the old and new permalink structures:
https://example.com/2019/03/i-love-wordpress/
https://example.com/i-love-wordpress/
Caveats
This plugin does not work retroactively. i.e. you must have the plugin installed and activated prior to switching permalink structures before backwards compatibility will work.
Currently only standard posts are supported.
Backwards compatibility is not supported between certain permalink structure updates. This is due to a clash between permalink structure regex matching.
Backwards compatibility is only provided between the most recent permalink structure update. i.e. you cannot change your permalink structure 3 times and have backwards compatibility across all 3 structures.
Deactivate or uninstall
After deactivating or uninstalling this plugin please ensure you visit Settings > Permalinks in the WordPress admin area to flush your rewrite rules.
Contributing
Contributions are welcomed on GitHub.
From within WordPress
Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’.
Search for ‘Backwards Compatible Permalinks’.
Activate Backwards Compatible Permalinks from your Plugins page.
Manually
Upload the backwards-compatible-permalinks folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the Backwards Compatible Permalinks plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
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Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
permalink
permalinks
url
urls
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 5.1
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 5.1.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to5.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.8 · PHP 5.6
Update activity11 Mar 20197y ago
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