Change Category Slug within WordPress

Discussion

1. Simon Whatley

   That works well if you’re changing category base. However, if you’re familiar with htaccess (granted most WordPress owners aren’t) and don’t want to use a plugin, you could do the following:

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^sugar/(.*) tutorials/$1 [L,R=301]
   

   Furthermore, if you’re migrating your legacy category structure over to tags (via the admin) and want to prevent broken links, you could write a rule to handle the change:

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^category(?:/[^/]+)*(/[^/]+) tag$1 [L,R=301]

   (Where ‘category’ was the old structure and ‘tag’ is the new structure. The regex handles sub-categories, which now become hierarchy-less tags.)
• David Walsh

  Yep, you can edit .htaccess directly, but that can be cumbersome for those who aren’t well versed with coding rewrites.
• Alex

  “/me likes simon post”
2. Kyle Hogan

   I definitely prefer to use a plugin for something like this. My .htacess file is bloated enough.
3. wparena

   I think this solution is for one category… what if i want to change many category’s slug? help would be appreciated
4. targoviste

   i have a big problem and maybe you can help me.
   site/category/apple and site/apple are showing me the same thing. how can i redirect the second one to the first one through htaccess.
   my post structure is site/apple/id/post/
   thanks
5. Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen

   Hi,

   Thanks for this!

   I recently changed my url structure from

   http://theadventurouswriter.com/quipstipsworkingworld/

   to

   http://theadventurouswriter.com/working/

   And now I need to reroute the incoming links so they go to the correct place.

   I tried inserting the urls themselves in the Redirection plugin’s source and target fields, but that didn’t work.

   Can you tell me what to insert in the source and target fields, to make this plugin work for me?

   Cheers,
   Laurie
6. Ryan McNallen

   I am having the same issue as targoviste, As he said: “site/category/apple and site/apple are showing me the same thing” is this normal? How do I fix this?
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   The best is to think wisely when you set up the site and stick to the link structure you’ve chosen. It’s almost impossible to redirect all the links Google already has indexed.
10. Tyler Duncan

    That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for that! Luckily my site has not been up for too long so my category change hopefully won’t be too much of an issue.
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12. Dave

    Excellent and straight forward explanation. Thanks for the help!
13. Service

    Good article, but the plugin consumes too many resources for redirection 301.
14. Max

    I’m actually working on a massive category change for my site and this has been one of the best explanations of redirects I’ve read since researching the topic. Also thanks for the recommendation on the redirection plugin, I noticed you can also configure it to write the redirects you put in it into your htaccess instead of just wordpress. :)
15. Sonal

    Thanks for this easy explanation David! I wouldn’t have been able to figure out the regular expression thingy without your clear example.
16. Tom

    I have been searching for exactly this solution. Thank you so much!
17. Codici sconto

    Works perfectly. Thank you very much!
18. VPS Reviews

    Thanks a lot for this post. Really help me out. By the way, you do have a post, where I can read more about how to edit the size of the category text. It will be great if describe it by editing the code in the Editor section. All the best and keep writing such a great posts.
19. Asi

    Hi
    Is it possible to change category slug only for some categories? (for example I have 10 categories I want to change category slug for 2 of them, in other 8 categories I want no change in slug)
20. Tom

    About the section “Changing the Slug”, it is not the category slug, it is the category_base conf. Category slug is the friendly version of a category name.