rewrite rule for WordPress 3.3 permalinks is not working

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1. The problem was due to the leading slash and not using $3

       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/(.+)$ /$3 [NC,R=301,L]
   

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2. There’s a script here you can use to generate .htaccess rules if you want to change permalinks to the /%postname%/ structure.

   http://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/

   My permalinks were exactly the same as yours, I used this tool to change them and it is working well.

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3. The last rule will never get applied if the previous rule matches. Assuming that the http://domain.com/2010/10/postname/ request doesn’t match a file or directory, the RewriteRule . /index.php [L] is going to rewrite the URI to /index.php thus it’ll never get to your rule. Try moving your rule up to the top, just below RewriteBase /, and duplicate the !-f/!-d conditions, so that it looks like this:

   RewriteBase /
   
   # for 301 redirect    
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/(.+)$ /$1 [NC,R=301,L]
   
   # the rest of the rules
   RewriteRule ^atom.xml$ feed/ [NC,R=301,L]
   RewriteRule ^rss.xml$ feed/ [NC,R=301,L]
   RewriteRule ^rss2.xml$ feed/ [NC,R=301,L]
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner  [NC]
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedValidator [NC]
   RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/handle [R=302,NC,L]
   RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   

   Also, if this is in an .htaccess file, you need to remove the leading slash in the rule match so that it looks like this: ^[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/(.+)$

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