Redirecting the old forum urls to the discourse

I am trying to migrate from WordPress based forum to Discourse .

My old url is like this

https://example.com/question/questioncontent

And in discourse I see topics are created with uri

https://example.com/t/questioncontent

So I copied entire content from my old forum to new forum
Im not that techy so I don’t wanted to take risk I have about 18 posts so I didn’t went with any scripts . I copied all the content manually.

Now my question is how can I redirect
My old forum links which are already indexed in search engines.

I tried permalink feature to redirect , but still I am not able to redirect

Did I missed something? Anywhere please guide me with the correct procedure

See admin -> customize -> permalinks. You can create a redirect from the 18 old URLs to their new topics.

I tried unfortunately they are not redirected

Any help? This is not working for me

I have written a plugin to do so.
https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-articles

https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-articles/blob/8a79f4eeff6399cfe1cbbd738a847080c8e8fef2/plugin.rb#L17

Change the above to:
get '/question/:slug', to: redirect('/t/%{slug}')

Thanks will try and let u know

I cannot imagine why not, but it’s impossible to tell without more information about what you did. I cannot imagine why you’d need a plug-in, though. For 18 you can just create them by hand, though you could possibly use a permalink normalization to do them all at once.

Edit: permalink works only for incoming links, not links within discourse. What is usually done is to rewrite those links in the posts.

I was redirecting my old forum urls to discourse one. Dont know why its not working for me.

i wanted to confirm
suppose my old url is 1. forum.example.com/must-read-rules
and discourse one is 2. forum.example.com/t/must-read-rules/47

i have to enter this 1. in New field and 2 in destination field am i right?

Sry for dumb question!

You’d enter must-read-rules in the URL field , leave the “topic ID” selected, and put 47 in the topic ID field. Like this:

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The redirect option under customize option is not working for me.

How can I make it work?

Are you trying to use it to redirect inbound links to discourse content, or to redirect links within discourse (i.e between pages).

Right! Permalink works only for incoming URLs. I bet this is the problem.

@pfaffman @Stephen Im migrating from wordpress to discourse. I m redirecting my old urls to discourse generated urls.

ex: forum.example.com/question/hey to forum.example.com/t/hey

Inbound links will be redirected by the permalinks feature. Internal links between posts will need to be corrected to reflect their new destination, permalink redirection won’t work there.

What are the possible ways to make it work?
the first url was my previous wordpress forum one and second url is my discourse one
How can i redirect successfully.

Can u please tell me how can i edit the code any guide? i installed the plugin but i didnt found specific area which u are referring to edit the slug?

Tried unfortunately not working

You’ll have to fork the plugin.

Can I add multiple urls there?
Or only structure of url?