Date-based permalink redirects fail or get altered
Redirects using date-based permalink patterns fail or get altered when saved.
3 public reports · first reported 9 December 2019 · last reported 3 March 2021
What's going wrong
Owners who redirect old date-based URLs, such as year and month or year, month and day in the path, report that the rule either returns 404 or changes itself when saved. One saw a day token rewritten to a broken form with no reason given. These owners are typically migrating from an old permalink structure to a cleaner one, which is exactly when redirects matter most. The failure blocks the core use case during site restructuring and leaves them guessing whether their rules are live. A tool that validates and previews permalink-pattern redirects before saving would solve it.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
Simple 301 Redirects by BetterLinks – Easy Redirect Manager.
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Who has this problem
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