Redirecting Old Permalink Structure for Wordpress

[roger Profile]

For starters, I love the new, clean forum look guys, great job.

I'm using Isapi Re-write 3 (full version) and want to know what code to install the htaccess for the following permalink structure:
http://www.domain.com/blog/%postname%-%post_id%/ (notice the hyphen and not a / between postname and id)
ex. http://www.domain.com/blog/deep-sea-fishing-1175/

My current permalink structure is http://www.domain.com/blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
ex. http://www.domain.com/blog/2012/03/deep-sea-fishing/
In addition to adding the correct rules for the new permalink structure; Is there a line similar to RedirectMatch that will 301 redirect all of the old link structure to the new link structure?

I found a similar idea here: http://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/
But it uses the RedirectMatch rule that Isapi doesn't support. I'm not sure if I used the utility correctly but it gave me this:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/blog/$3


In Summary:
Htaccess Code for:
/%postname%-post_id%/

301 Redirect rule for:
/blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ TO /%postname%-post_id%/

Thanks in advance!

[HeliconAndrew]

Hello,

For a new URL structure try using the following:

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RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(?:[^/-]+)-(\d+)/?$ index.php?p=$1 [NC,L]

Regarding your idea to convert /blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ TO /%postname%-post_id%/ there's no way to get PostID form a URL that doesn't have it. You may simply leave the old set of rules for those links to make them work for users coming from other sites.

Regards
Andrew

[suntattood Profile]

This doesn't change with regards to the latest update, right?

[HeliconAndrew]

No, it doesnt.