Question

Nginx regex for WordPress permalink rewrite

Does an easy method exist to change my WordPress permalinks from site.com/yyyy/mm/post-title to site.com/post-title?

I’m imagining a regular expression to drop the /yyyy/mm from the URL, but am not clear how to write that in Nginx. I’d love to make a change on my WordPress config, but don’t want to wreck already-published URLs.

I could also cheat, by using a redirect on the 404 page…but that feels silly.

Submit an answer

This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

Sign In or Sign Up to Answer

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Kamal Nasser • July 6, 2015
Accepted Answer

You can redirect /yyyy/mm/post-title to /post-title by adding the following line to your nginx server block:

rewrite ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/(.*?)/?$ /$1 permanent;