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[safeenaat1]

hi house, please i just migrated my blog from blogger to wordpress and my links are not aligning. i have followed different tutorials online. see example below.

link on current wordpress blog
http://nigeriaonlinebusiness.com/20...-entrepreneurs-use-to-make-money-online/.html

link on former blogger and search engines

http://nigeriaonlinebusiness.com/2018/04/top-5-strategies-millionaire.html

if you notice i have aligned the year and month and the .html on blogger but the challenge is that the urls on the former blogger are not the complete titles. they are just part of the titles. please guys how can i address this urgently?

 

[PaulRD]

hi house, please i just migrated my blog from blogger to wordpress and my links are not aligning. i have followed different tutorials online. see example below.

link on current wordpress blog
http://nigeriaonlinebusiness.com/20...-entrepreneurs-use-to-make-money-online/.html

link on former blogger and search engines

http://nigeriaonlinebusiness.com/2018/04/top-5-strategies-millionaire.html

if you notice i have aligned the year and month and the .html on blogger but the challenge is that the urls on the former blogger are not the complete titles. they are just part of the titles. please guys how can i address this urgently?

Not sure if I got your problem quite clearly, but if it's url(title) issue, just change the slug of url in wordpress>edit post. Wordpress takes the whole title of the post and includes it in the url slug, that may be the issue.

 

[safeenaat1]

Not sure if I got your problem quite clearly, but if it's url(title) issue, just change the slug of url in wordpress>edit post. Wordpress takes the whole title of the post and includes it in the url slug, that may be the issue.

thanks so much for the swift response sir. thanks added. the challange is the wordpress is taking the complete title while blogger was not using the complete title. so they are now different urls as seen in the above example.

 

[PaulRD]

thanks so much for the swift response sir. thanks added. the challange is the wordpress is taking the complete title while blogger was not using the complete title. so they are now different urls as seen in the above example.

So that's the problem. You can use this plugin- https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulk-edit-post-titles/ to bulk edit them. Just copy past the old titles if you have them.

 

[Wivic]

To fix the slug issue, you will need to create and run a little code snippet.
Read more on :
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutor...-to-wordpress-without-losing-google-rankings/

 

[safeenaat1]

So that's the problem. You can use this plugin- https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulk-edit-post-titles/ to bulk edit them. Just copy past the old titles if you have them.

the blog has over 200 articles. which is the fastest way to do it?

 

[Veil123]

Your link works fine even without the ./html at the end. What I would recommend you is to leave the slugs/permalinks as they are and just make 301 redirects from the old to the new ones.

 

[safeenaat1]

Your link works fine even without the ./html at the end. What I would recommend you is to leave the slugs/permalinks as they are and just make 301 redirects from the old to the new ones.

try searching for site:nigeriaonlinebusiness.com on google so you understand the problem. all the links will not work

 

[safeenaat1]

So that's the problem. You can use this plugin- https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulk-edit-post-titles/ to bulk edit them. Just copy past the old titles if you have them.

bulk edit is not working for me. it is not compatible with my version of wordpress. any other recommendation?

 

[safeenaat1]

To fix the slug issue, you will need to create and run a little code snippet.
Read more on :
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutor...-to-wordpress-without-losing-google-rankings/

thanks a lot bro. thanks added. this didn't fix the problem also. the older urls on blogger are still not matching the wordpress url. despite the permalinks, snippet and the blogger redirects. please suggest alternative.

 

[Veil123]

try searching for site:nigeriaonlinebusiness.com on google so you understand the problem. all the links will not work

Do 301 redirects.

 

[darklich]

Not sure it will help as the plugin was not updated for 12 months, but...
I had a site where I was in need of a special link to one of my posts.

Please check this plugin: custom permalinks
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-permalinks/

You will have to change every post link in your WordPress manually to the old one...

I hope it will help.

 

[safeenaat1]

Not sure it will help as the plugin was not updated for 12 months, but...
I had a site where I was in need of a special link to one of my posts.

Please check this plugin: custom permalinks
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-permalinks/

You will have to change every post link in your WordPress manually to the old one...

I hope it will help.

thanks sooo much bro. problem fixed. when i was about to start editing the links, i noticed my wordpress urls has / before the php and that was my problem. you guys are soooooo amazing. the only little challenge i am having now is the mobile site. i have deactivated it on blogger but the url google still has is the mobile url. i dont know how to correct it on the search.