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Loading ...I have learned that I made a poor choice on the permalink structure when I set up my blogs. For instance, the most recent post at WordUp has the URL:
“http://www.chadgramling.com/wordup/?p=313″
But I would prefer it be:
“http://www.chadgramling.com/wordup/Chad-on-the-Radio.html”
From what I have learned, the latter format is better for SEO reasons. I know how to go into the options and change the structure to make it as such, but if I do that, I will in essence kill all my links. I could go in an edit .htaccess to redirect previous URLS to the new URL names. That’s a lot of work, but may be the price I have to pay.
Anyone have better suggestions? What else might this impact that I haven’t considered (like pages, categories, etc.)?
Chad Gramling is a baseball loving author, Christian and family man. WordUp is his platform for discussing what's on his mind, his publishing endeavors and pretty much anything else.
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As long as you’re using the latest version of WordPress, it will automatically forward all those old urls to the new ones.
Really?! I tried to do this a couple months back and virtually killed my whole blog. I had to restore it from backups. Has WP changed something to make this work better?
yep. check out what happens when you visit this url:
http://www.nathanrice.net/?p=40
I think they added this back in 2.3.
Nathan
Okay, I tested it out on an old WP install of another blog. It’s on version 2.2.2. The link structure updated (and didn’t kill the blog). Yet, it does not do the forward/redirect like yours. Guess I will try to upgrade and try again.