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Change your Wordpress permalink structure without screwing up your original links
Posted by Andy Bailey at 13 September, 2007, 10:31 pmI only started this blog a couple of weeks ago, I started well and changed the permalinks to /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ which I thought was good enough but later, I updated my Stumbled Wordpress Widget and modified the date to put the post first on the main page. but, of course, the permalink changed. grrr, my stats showed that some google hits 404′d on the old permalink, double grrrr
I ended up making another post with the old permalink title and linking it to the new one. phew
then, on one of my (unhealthily) regular trips to the Live plugin in wp-admin, I noticed a few real-time hits coming in to pages that 404′d because I’d edited their timestamp too…I had to do something about it and that’s how I found Dean Lee’s Permalink Migration Plugin. Once installed, you can change your permalinks to whatever you want and enter the old permalink style into the plugin settings in the permalinkmigration tab under options and it will automatically do a “301 Redirect”, also known as a Permanent Redirect for all the old links.
Search engines will see it as a ‘proper’ redirect and update their indexes and you wont lose any page rank!
I’ve seen on other blogs that /%postname%/ is the best format to use, one place said that if you haven’t changed your permalinks by now then it was too late!!
problem solved, thanks Dean Lee!, by the way, check out his msn chatbot, you can add it to your friends and chat with it all day! I had a chat for 15 minutes, it was quite amusing!
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Ah, I see that you had the same growing pains I did when I decided to make my permanent links more *pretty*.
I tried the 301, but what I thought worked really well was customizing my 404 page to generate me revenue for the lost pages …..
I was considering doing a custom 404 but I haven’t really got any revenue makers on here except my links to uVme and elottery.
this time around, I’m writing a blog for fun rather than for profit and it’s been great fun!
Andy,
Thanks for the redirect plugin! I did the same thing as you only I did not know about the redirect plugin. I just figured, hey at least fokks will come to my site and see the other posts as well.
Anyway, I have had great success the the following permalink structure:
/%category%/%postname%
SInce changing to this structure I am now listed on the first page of google with some very competitive key words.
Best of luck!
I did consider putting a category bit in there too but the url’s ended up being too long if I post to multiple categories, I try and put the important keywords in the title of the post so I think it’ll get noticed for the right ones as long as my title is descriptive enough..
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It’s such a big plus that we are all on Wordpress because no matter what you decide to it, it is possible.
Andy, what plug in are you using for the feed URI? That is very cool.
I use the Feedsmith Feedburner plugin for my feed, it’s great to be able to redirect all feed access to that service so I can see how many people are reading it, you get some good stats too.
the reason it’s on the comment above is, I’m developing a new type of plugin… still in development stage at the moment, hopefully I can get it working and take over the world!!
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Thanks for the link! Ya, I’m all into taking over the world with your plug-in.
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Let me say this again, one more time….. I just love the new plug-ins you have installed!
I can’t seem to get to the CommentLuv plug-in page. Can you please give me the direct link?
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aha, it’s not ready for consumption yet, I want to get it working with blogspot and the other major blog platforms first and then I can send you a copy for testing.
I’m quite proud of this one because i used filters and actions for the first time so there’s no need for the user to edit any templates, just upload and activate and it will work (hopefully! lol)
Ah, so this is the one that is going to conquer the blog world. And you know, everyone on the web’s going to have this as a must-have for their blog.
Andy, is there a tutorial you can recommend to make these plug-ins?
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I did a post about how to make a plugin with less than 20 lines of code here, you do have to know a bit of php to make them though!
I have just updated the CommentLuv plugin so it can parse blogspot blogs (standard feed and feedburner) and also typepad blogs (standard and feedburner)! yey!
I’m just working on a bit for it to determine the feed address if it’s not in the standard location… i can send you a copy of the current version that is working if you want?
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andy at teamplaylotto dot com
I can’t believe I was actually able to follow it…. I think I deserve a pat in the back
Just shows you how far I’ve gone in php in the last six months.
I’m going to make one a-la-Andy-Bailey ….
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well done Sharon!
You may need to add a line break to the displayed text so it fits nicely on your post or wherever you put the function.
I’m glad my little tutorial helped someone, I wish there was one when I started making plugins (all of 3 weeks ago!) lol
You mean, you just learned how to do this? So, you are a genius to come up with the Stumble Upon and CommentLuv plugins.
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hehe, thanks for the genius compliment but not really deserved! the stumbled plugin is a simple rss parse function, the hellostumbler is a simple refer function and the commentluv is a not so simple rss parser, one led to the next. each one helped me learn enough to make the next one
I learned it all from taking apart other peoples plugins and searching the wordpress forums and codex. too much time to spend in front of my screen methinks!
Okay, Andy. Let me say it again. Genius
It’s not just because you wrote a plugin. It’s because this is one of those plugins that are going to eventually be on every blog, just like SUBSCRIBE TO COMMENT …..
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oh that would be nice! I wasn’t thinking of massive exposure when I wrote it but it seems to be creating a buzz of it’s own. thanks for testing it for me!
I like the permalink redirect I use it on all my blogs. I like Sharon’s idea for creating a customized 404 page. I’ll put that on my “to do” pile.
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Opal, I think I have a tutorial on my personal blog somewhere floating on how to customize the 404 page….
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Hey there, your “Hello Googler” message prompted me to write a comment
heh. Thanks for the link, I really appreciate that. Being a near perfectionist, I am always unsatisfied with my blog’s default permalink structure (which goes like this: /%post_id%/)… thanks providing the link to the plugin, and now I’ve successfully changed my permalink structure without any majoc screwups (so far…) 
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Teddy: thanks for taking the time to comment! the plugin certainly saved me a lot of trouble so I hope it all works out fine for you…
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