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Manima
Member

Hello,
I created a page to display annual and monthly archives. Annual archives works fine, but any monthly link send you to home page instead of myblog/2008/10

I have deactivated all plugins but the problem persist.

I have to say that recently changed the permalinks from
motus-anima.com/2013/01/sample-post/
to
motus-anima.com/sample-post/
and added a redirection code in htaccess file to redirect the old permalinks to the new ones.

Am I missing something here?

I have no clue what could be causing this.

The link to my site's archives is this: http://motus-anima.com/archivos-motus-anima/.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

Posted 4 months ago #
Syahir Hakim
Developer

I'm almost certain that your permalink change is what causing the issue, especially with your new permalink structure.

You see, when you have a structure like you have (motus-anima.com/sample-post/), more often than not WordPress won't be able to tell whether what is being requested is a post, or a page, or an archive page, etc.

If I were you, I would not adopt that permalink structure. If you don't want the date in your permalink, you can use categories, or even a custom prefix like so:

motus-anima.com/the-awesome-category/sample-post/
motus-anima.com/articles/sample-post/
motus-anima.com/articles/the-awesome-category/sample-post/

etc.

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Posted 4 months ago #
Manima
Member

Thank Syahir.

I changed the permalink structure thinking that is easier to read. Following a guide I added this to htaccess to avoid loosing backlinks:

RedirectMatch 301 /([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.*)$ http://motus-anima.com/$3

However, that redirection was the cause of messing the monthly archives. Searching for a fix, found this page: 10 awesome htaccess hacks for wordpress. The author also advice to use a redirection, but slightly different from the one I had.

RedirectMatch 301 /([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$4

This one has a 4 at the end, instead of a 3 that I was using. To be honest with you, I have no idea what means that number, but that seems to fix the problem.

Do you think is worth to change the permalink structure?

Thanks for your support Syahir!

Posted 4 months ago #
Syahir Hakim
Developer

I changed the permalink structure thinking that is easier to read.

The benefit is marginal, if any. I would argue that it would be more user- and SEO-friendly to add some other type of hierarchy, like the post category, to the URL.

The $4 means that the 4th matched text in the regex /([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.*)$, so it is the last portion of the entered URL (.*)$.

If it works it works, but make sure you do a thorough test and ensure that there's no broken links, especially with regard to single-post pagination, archive page pagination, etc. Easier to change the permalink now rather than later when your site has been thoroughly indexed and gained some PageRank.

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Posted 4 months ago #
Manima
Member

Easier to change the permalink now rather than later when your site has been thoroughly indexed and gained some PageRank.

You're right. There is a lot of work I have to do in the site; I'll try to change the permalink to show the post category instead of just the name of the post.

Thanks for your advice!!

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