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I recently migrated my site from wordpress.com to self hosted wordpress.org. I’m very new to this and trying to figure out what I think are two related topics.
I’d like to change my permalinks from day and name to post name. I’ve read that this isn’t recommended for older blogs due to complexity. Mine is older but wasn’t all that active so I think mine counts as a newer blog because there’s not too much content.
I can see where to change the permalinks but I’m not sure how to do the redirect step. I found this article from Yoast which has a link to their tool to create redirects. However, it says it only works for Apache based servers. I’m with Blue Host but I’m not sure if that’s Apache based. The next step involves placing it in my .htaccess file – but I have no idea what that is and from other posts I’ve read it makes me nervous. This is all very new for me.
The other (possibly related) task I would like to do is redirect traffic from my old site to my new one. According to Blue Host and WordPress.com, it’s not possible because of two different hosts and because the old site is http and the new one is https. Their only suggestions was to post a message with a link on my old homepage and/or old posts. Is there a different way? I have several posts on the old site that have been shared widely and they are my main sources for traffic. I’d like that traffic to land on those posts on my new site.
Many thanks,