Question

I am using wordpress with WPML and I came across a small issue. The previous website had the urls in this format:

domain.com/lang/title-inglish.html

eg:

-> domain.com/hello-world.html {English users}

-> domain.com/fr/hello-world.html {French users}

The problem is that WPML {Multi language plugin for wordpress} creates a new page for each translation and wordpress doesn’t allow the users to use the same title twice so it adds a suffix like so:

-> domain.com/hello-world.html {English users}

-> domain.com/fr/hello-world-2.html {French users}

The good this is that somehow domain.com/fr/hello-world.html points to domain.com/fr/hello-world-2.html just the same …

So …

What I would really need is a R 301 on hello-world-2.html to hello-world.html

I need to remove ‘-2’ {-anynumber} from my URLS

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You could do this in htaccess:

RewriteRule ^(.*)-[0-9]+\.html?$ $1\.html [R]

But the problem isn’t in the server, it’s in wordpress… It would be more prudent to get a better module or just patch that one.