[[anonymous]]

Hi,

When importing posts from WordPress using the WP Importer the URLs are not exact, they change and match the Title of the post. Is there a way to choose the preferred URL from the import?

Thanks

[Bob]

Hi,
Publii generates a user and SEO friendly URLs in the way you probably have noticed. There is no way to import your own slugs into Publii.

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[[anonymous]]

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

 

[Bob]

I’m afraid we have no plan for that.

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[itips3727]

vidian 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.

[[anonymous]]

Thanks itips3727, that could work.

[[anonymous]]

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.

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