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Bulk changes, redirects and problems

Regenerate addresses from the formats, put WordPress’s back, or find and replace text in many addresses at once — previewed first and undoable — and manage the redirects that keep old addresses working.

Go to Native AI → Permalinks → Bulk changes.

A bulk change previewed: find “shop” and replace it with “store” in product addresses, each old address beside its new one, before applying — A bulk change previewed: “shop” replaced with “store” in addresses, each old address beside its new one.

Change	What it does
Regenerate from the formats	Makes each address again from its type’s format — after you set or change a format.
Back to WordPress’s addresses	Removes custom addresses, so WordPress makes them again.
Find and replace	Replaces text in addresses, ignoring letter case. Only whole parts between slashes replaces blog in /blog/post but not in /weblog/post. Leave Replace with empty to remove it.

Choose whatThe change, the content types, and the statuses (published by default). Addresses set by hand are left alone unless you include them.
PreviewEvery address that would change, before and after — and any that can’t, because another page already has that address. Nothing has changed yet.
ApplyIt runs in parts, so large sites don’t time out. The old addresses redirect to the new ones.

History and undo#

Every change is kept in History — a bulk change, an edit, an address that followed its page, a change the AI made. Undo puts back everything that change did, in one click.

Redirects#

Permalinks → Redirects lists old addresses (added by themselves when an address changes) and redirects you added, with how often each was used. A redirect to a page follows it: change the page’s address again and the redirect goes straight to the new one.

Add redirect: an address on this site, and where it goes — a page, post, product or category, or another address.
Import redirects from CSV (old address, then where it goes, one per line), checked first; Export downloads them.
A page’s own redirects are also in its editor’s Address box: add or remove addresses there.

Problems#

Problem	What to do
Used by more than one page	Visitors see only one of them: give the others a different address.
Redirects that never run	A page has that address now, so it opens instead: delete the redirect.
Addresses of deleted pages	Left from pages or terms that no longer exist: Remove all.

With the AI#

The AI can find addresses, change one, set formats, add and remove redirects and change settings. For bulk changes it previews first and asks before applying, showing the list; any change can be undone.

On the features pages

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