Comments on: How to Change Permalink Structure in WordPress without Duplicate Content

By: danny

danny — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:37:39 +0000

i tried using the redirect plugin to change permalinks but modified post redircts were not created. Trying to figure out why it did not work..

By: Pali Madra

Pali Madra — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:58:02 +0000

Hi,
Rebecca thank you for the post. There are some interesting comments.
@Bret does it mean that now the redirection plugins are not needed in case you are changing the default permalink structure. Does this also apply if you change a custom permalink structure to another custom permalink structure.
@Rebecca the plugin discussed was last updated on 2009-09-17. Does it work with the present version of WordPress.

Thanks in advance.

By: designi1

designi1 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:40:04 +0000

I recently wanted to change the permalink at designi1.com but i´ll lost all my Retweet count. There is anyway of changing permalink at wordpress without loosing all tweetmeme contage? any tip?

By: Brett Bumeter

Brett Bumeter — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:35:20 +0000

In the example above some form of redirect plugin (I used Redirection myself) or .htaccess 301 work is needed.
However, many people do not realize that there is a built in redirect function in WordPress since about 2.6 if you are moving from the default permalink format to anything else.

By: Terry Platt

Terry Platt — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:55:00 +0000

Hi to everyone. Kevin and Sapan please note that my question was prompted by your recent comment here. I received e-mail from Google this morning, December 17th, that stated one of my sites will be included in Google News but I needed the 3 digits in the post name. So, does anyone really know? Did they send me an old canned response or do I indeed need to make changes? I have the Google News sitemap ready to go and it sure would be nice if that is all that would be needed since there are literally thousands of old posts that would need to be redirected.

By: Sapan

Sapan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:10:25 +0000

Rebecca, thanks for the short and sweet tutorial..
but unfortunately it didn’t work out for me…. after installation I wasn’t able to find the ‘Permalink Redirect’ option anywhere in my admin panel.. m using WP 2.8.5
finally used permalinks migration plugin…

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:38:52 +0000

@Kevin I tried to find out more information about creating a Google News sitemap, but couldn’t find directions on how to do it. Can you point me to something that describes how to create a Google News sitemap?

By: Kevin Spence

Kevin Spence — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:45:36 +0000

You don’t need the 3 letter ID for Google News so long as you use a Google News sitemap.

By: ovidiu

ovidiu — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:23:57 +0000

well, I used it i.e. after I changed my default category text from category to kategorie (german) so a redirect of /category/ to /kategorie/ with the redirection plugin did the trick.
it also has stats so I know when the changes have propagated throughout the itnernet and in a couple of month when nobody links to the old structure anymore, I’ll just remove the redirect…

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:48:46 +0000

Ovidiu, I tried to use the plugin but then I tested the permalinks and they weren’t redirecting. Also, I found there to be too many options for what I needed which was a simple redirect of permalink structure.