URL from WordPress Import are not the same

Ok, thank you Bob. Do you think this could be a future feature of the importer?

Importing hundreds of URLs that are already optimized for search engines (without “the”, “and”, etc) and already getting traffic, it’s a time consuming task to edit one by one. Is there any way to change them in bulk once imported?

Thanks

[anonymous] wrote:

Ok, thank you Bob. Do you think this could be a future feature of the importer?

Importing hundreds of URLs that are already optimized for search engines (without “the”, “and”, etc) and already getting traffic, it’s a time consuming task to edit one by one. Is there any way to change them in bulk once imported?

Thanks

Perhaps once imported into Publii, you could do a search and replace in the db.sqlite file (edit the slugs, etc). Though, of course, make a backup first.

Alternatively, maybe add a 301 redirects listing in your Publii .htaccess file.

You can rebuild the app, it’s built with Electron. The WXR importer code is easy to read. All it needs to do is to read a field from your WXR/XML file. I manually edited the slugs but I had 43 posts, not 400, to edit.

That the slugs don’t allow slashes is annoying since it means you need to set up redirection if you’ve used a path pattern such as/topic/year/title – which is common. I solved it by replacing slashes with underscores, used that as a slug and then set up a rewrite rule to redirect traffic to the old paths.