make taxonomy terms more human friendly I work on a  news site that has hundreds of articles and all the article urls are written by hand. eg. example.com/world-news-today-28-march-2018
The site has various news categories like: business, economy, technology, etc
but they are named taxonomy/term/1 and so on.
Is it too late now to activate pathauto module on a live production site that has tons of content?
All I want to do is change the urls of the news categories and make them more human friendly, so example.com/taxonomy/term/1 becomes example.com/business
without touching the article urls which are in each category.
Any ideas how can I do this and if it's safe at this stage?
You can use Pathauto module and follow these steps:


Enable pathauto module
Go to admin/config/search/path/patterns and set the patterns for specific taxonomy using Token module and save the form
Go to admin/config/search/path/update_bulk and generate URLs for taxonomy


Don't worry about the existing URLs (no matter wherever you added it) it will remain same, Pathauto will not effect anything. Now, visitors can access by both URLs (default and newly generated).

I hope this will help you.