Relative redirects for posts, categories, products and product categories

Question

I imported all content from an old site to a new one.

The old site was basically a catalog of products and blog posts. However, it was all built as standard WP posts - not custom post types.

The new site has a blog and WooCommerce implemented, so I managed to divide all of the old posts into Post/Products, and old categories into Cats/Product cats.

However... The old permalinks were set to %category%/%post%, so you can't tell by the URL, whether it is a link for post, or for a product.

I need to set the redirects globally so the old links get redirected like this:

For products:

• FROM /some-category/some-product-name/
• TO /product/some-category/some-product-name/

For product categories:

• FROM /some-category/
• TO /product-category/some-category/

For blog posts:

• FROM /some-category/some-article/
• TO /blog/some-category/some-article/

For blog categories:

• FROM /some-category/
• TO /blog/some-category/

Or something similar, that would work in the same manner. I already tried some plugins like Redirection, but it's settings don't seem to match my needs. Is this even remotely possible?

Answer 1

OK, so here’s the first time I’m going to recommend a plugin as a solution... But it’s really the easiest solution in this case, I guess...

There’s a great plugin called Redirection in plugin repository (https://pl.wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/).

It allows you to define all kind of redirections. You can decide if it should be 301 or 302 redirection, you can use regex, and it even counts redirected requests, so you know when a rule is not needed anymore...

PS. Of course you can do this without any plugin at all. Just add these rules to your .htaccess file.