20 Oct 08 _ WordPress Permalink Redirect (Archive 404)
By Katy
in BlogTorials
After upgrading our AWP Blog to WordPress to 2.6 (we are eagerly awaiting the 2.7 visual transformation, by the way), we noticed in the shuffle our Permalinks got messed up. For example, searching for my post div align top center, which is #1 right now, Google gives us blog.awpny.com/archives/206 (not a permalink). Following that URL used to get us to our 404 Error page. Whoops! Not so great for SEO ratings, not to mention reader frustration!
WordPress doesn’t automatically redirect your old permalinks to the new permalinks, unfortunately. The permalink for the above post is http://blog.awpny.com/2008/03/position-a-div-element-absolute-and-align-it-top-center/. I did a little research. More than a few people have been frustrated with this problem, as you can imagine. I discovered this plugin Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin. It works perfectly! Thank you Scott Yang’s Playground.
Simply download & install the plugin. Edit the plugin settings (under Settings>Permalink Redirect). For our blog, in the ‘Path pairs to redirect from and to’ box, I used:
[from] /archives/%post_id% [to] /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/And now, Google search results take me to the post, rather than a 404 Error page!
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:50 am
Hej, I was just searching for help regarding this plugin which as I think is very helpful. I’d like to change my permalinks from http://www.domain.de/?p=12345 to http://www.domain.de/2008/10/sample-post/ but just dont know what to type after the [from]-tag in the “path pairs to redirect from and to” box. Do you know the correct wordpress notation for this kind of permalink structure (which is the “ugly” standard)?
February 16th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Let me know if you find something that works. I need something like this for another project.