Changing permalinks in new wordpress website using regex in 301s?

[musthavemarketing]

Hi there

I am working on a website and we would like to change the permalinks from product-category (replacing with Shop) and product to buy.   Currently there are nearly 400 products and multiple categories.

Although the website has just been indexed wondering if we need to do 301's? if we did would like to use regex to manage

so redirect would be as example:  mydomain.com/sub-domain/product-category/ redirecting to to mydomain.com/sub-domain/shop/ (I know you do not need to put in the domain but as an example) - could anyone give me the regex for this?

Same for products: mydomain.com/sub-domain/product/sample-product redirect to mydomain.com/sub-domain/buy/sample-product

thanks in anticipation

[KristinaKledzik]

Hi Allie,

Sounds like you've got two questions:

First, you'll need to use 301s if you have any inbound links to the pages that you're replacing.

Second, you can't use Regex in HTML. Do you have a CMS that can help you build the 301s?

Best,

Kristina

[Chris_Hickman]

Hello Allie,

Here is the basic regex redirect code to place in your htaccess file.

RedirectMatch 301 /sub-folder/product-category/(.) /sub-folder/shop/$1
RedirectMatch 301 /sub-folder/product/(.) /sub-folder/buy/$1

Hope this helps. You can also find more information on redirecting old pages using regex from WPEngine here.

[musthavemarketing]

Thanks so much for your responses. Will try that now

[Chris_Hickman]

You're welcome. Hope it worked out for you. You can mark this as answered if the problem is solved.