I am trying to find out if there is a plugin or hack or SOMETHING that will allow me to change from one version of the custom permalinks to another without losing my google link juice... The permalink structure was selected before I was around and it is not really helping our search ranking.
I'd like to change from the Numeric (/archives/%post_id%) to the Post name (/%postname%/) permalinks. I know the default always works regardless of the custom structure that is selected, but that doesn't help in this particular situation, as I'm not using the default structure.
If anybody knows of a way to do some kind of rewrite that would redirect one type of permalink to the other it would be greatly appreciated. I have full access to the server and am running NGINX if that helps.