PureNews

PureNews is an amazingly sleek and powerful news theme with unlimited color variations.

View full feature list Check out the live demo Buy this theme today

WordPress plugin: Permalinks Moved Permanently

Posted by on 18th Aug 2007 WordPress Plugins 4 comments

The permalink structure in your WordPress blog determines what type of extension your posts have. If you have ever wanted to change from one permalink structure to another but didn’t because you would lose a lot of traffic then this is the plugin for you.

If you just migrated your WordPress blog from one permalink structure to another, and you don’t want to lose the traffic that accesses your blog through the old permalinks, this is for you.

Right before the old permalink generates a 404, this simple plugin grabs the slug from the end of the request and checks if there’s a post with this slug living somewhere else on your blog. If so, it will generate a “301 Moved Permanently” error, and forward your user to the new location of your post. It’s simple, but effective.

I love plugins like this, they take a problematic situation and resolve it with the simple upload and activation of a plugin.

Download Link : Permalinks Moved Permanently Plugin

Kevin Muldoon is a webmaster and blogger who lives in Central Scotland. His current project is WordPress Mods; a blog which focuses on WordPress Themes, Plugins, Tutorials, News and Modifications and useful resources such as 101 Places To Find Images For Your Blog Posts.

4 comments - Leave a reply
  • Posted by Wallace on 18th Aug 2007

    you can also consider this one,Redirection!
    http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/

  • Posted by Kevin on 18th Aug 2007

    nice find Wallace. Looks like a good script :)

  • Posted by Rea Maor on 18th Aug 2007

    I'm still fighting the stupid mistake I did 4 months ago when I've decided to change all of my Categories… took me 4 days of 301 redirections to try and save some of the backlinks… I'll

    if you ask me I'll say Avoid path changing AT ALL COSTS