Permalinks Migration Plugin for wordpress
With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t affect your search engine rankings.
introduction
Many people want to change their permalink structure,for example, from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/
But doing so will make all pages indexed by search engines become invalid,moreover, losing visitors from other sites or bookmarks that links to you.
There is a way to tell the search engines (and browsers) that the page has permenantly moved, and that the old address should be replaced by the new one . It’s called a “301 Redirect”, also known as a Permanent Redirect.When you do this, Search engines will update their indexes quickly and you won’t lose your pagerank.you will continue to receive traffic as though nothing had changed. This works for search engines, bookmarks, and links from other sites.
By now, you know how can you change your permalinks without losing the traffic you’re already getting. You can download this Permalink Migration Plugin to achieve this for you.
This plugin will generates a “301 Redirect” when user or spider visit your site through old permalinks,and redirect them to the new permalinks of the same post.
Do not fear to change your permalink structure now, you would never lose any visitors due to changed addresses.
Download Dean’s Permalinks Migration Plugin Version 1.0
Installation
- unzip and upload the file into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Activate it on your Admin Panel->Plugin Management page.
Usage
- goto admin panel->options->PermalinksMigration.set the old permanlink structure of your site.
- goto admin panel->options->Permalinks.change the new permalink structure to what you want. (personally I recommend /%category%/%postname%/, you can read @ArunBasilLal’s tour to learn more about how to Optimizing Permalinks for Better SEO)
- Done,enjoy it.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to all of you, who have encouraged me to update my articles and code, and who sent in bug reports and fixes.
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Thanks! I'll be needed it.
Thanks for this plugin I use it and it full working.
But i Have i problem in google webmaster tools, after this permalink migration I see in there mete duplicate description. Why?
ex in google webmaster tools I see for over 180 page like this with duplicate description:
mydomain.com/oldpermalink/article
my.domain.com/newpermalink/article
Thanks
How I can fix it?
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Hi, the next is not stored and not displayed. (Text typed in FCK-Editor)
Hi, i have downloaded the newest update for wordpress, but the next is not stored and not displayed. (Text typed in FCK-Editor)
Hi Dean,
I have downloaded the plugin and activated it on my website (blog). The problem I have is when I try and view old entries (page2) I seem to be missing some of the images. Any ideas why this is happening?
Very nice plugin, thanks for it and appreciating your work.