WP legacy / broken links

[teezeh]

Hi all, I have just recently switched to Publii, coming from WP. My WordPress had day and name permalinks like https://www.example.com/2026/08/10/postname/. My Publii blog only has www.example.com/postname/, which leads to a lot of broken internal links in my older posts.

How can I best batch modify all files so that the yyyy/mm/dd/ part is being removed from all my internal links? (Ideally so that this works for both absolute and relative links, but that is not prio 1)

ChatGPT proposed:

find . -type f -name '*.html' -exec perl -pi.bak -e 's#https?://www\.domain\.de/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/([^/"<> ]+)/?#www.domain.de/$1#g' {} +

Does this make sense? Is that even possible? Which Publii dir would I have to run that command on?

Any tips are welcome.

[mohammadrezwankhan]

[teezeh]

Thank you so very much for the detailed and precise answer and instructions. Made my day!

For now, I have applied the permanent redirect via .htaccess, and it seems to work just fine. I will keep an eye on it for the next couple of days and keep the sqlite rework for the weekend or so.

Again, thanks a million!

[teezeh]

Hi Mohammad,

is there any particular reason why the content of your answer was removed?

I still have it in an email from GitHub, just wanted to make sure that I can "safely" use your Python script for cleaning the links stored in the Publii sqlite DB.

Best wishes,
Thomas