Removing date from url using .htaccess

February 22, 20232 Views

I recently changed the permalink format of my blog so the date is removed:

http://site.com/blog/2011/01/post-name

is now

http://site.com/blog/post-name

The problem is the url with date is not redirected to new url. I tried some regular expressions in .htaccess but still get 404. Any ideas?

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Anonymous says:

February 22, 2023 at 9:29 am
The solution was
```
RedirectMatch 301 /blog/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.*)$ /blog/$3
```
http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/10-awesome-htaccess-hacks-for-wordpress
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Anonymous says:

February 22, 2023 at 9:29 am
Use this rewrite:
```
RewriteRule  blog/d{4}/d{2}/(.*) blog/$1 [R=301, L]
```
If your whole WordPress installation is under the blog directory, and that’s where the .htaccess file is located – use this:
```
RewriteRule Â d{4}/d{2}/(.*) $1 [R=301, L]
```
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