Been ripping my hair out trying to keep my blogpost links alive after porting to WP from flask… needed to transform my URLs to lower and swap underscores..
After a few overnights scrambling together code with no luck (I am behind nginx, and could prolly do it there).. but VX in #wordpress on freenode helped me out with this:
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘process_post’ );
function process_post($wp) {
$request = false;
if(preg_match(‘#^blogpost/\d+/(.*?)/?$#i’,$wp->request, $matches)) :
$request = str_replace( ‘_’, ‘-‘ , strtolower($matches[1]) );
elseif(preg_match(‘#^blogpost/(.*?)/?$#i’,$wp->request, $matches)) :
$request = str_replace( ‘_’, ‘-‘ , strtolower($matches[1]) );
endif;
if($request) :
wp_redirect( get_home_url() . ‘/’ . $request , ‘301’ );
exit;
endif;
}
Worked magic!!!
just put that in your theme’s functions.php and hack to work for you… (might not be the most performant/ best method, but it works!!!)
