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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Hi Dean, Tool installed in a few minutes and works fine with wordpress 2.0.7
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PLUGIN NOT WORKING? HERE’S THE CURE
I’d recently updated my permalink struture and had been manually updating a 301 redirect page (which is a major pain in the butt because I have 400+ pages indexed).
I saw Ade’s post at OnlineGist.com and came over here.
Initially I was a little pissed because the plugin didnt work for me.
And it looked like I wasn’t alone because it seems like others couldn’t get it to work too.
After some tweaking, here’s what I found out.
1) Go configure your old permalink structure BEFORE you activate the plugin.
2) *****If you activate the plugin BEFORE configuring the old permalink structure, it will store the WRONG ‘old permalink’ structure, and obviously your redirects will screw up.
3) If for some reason, you activated the plugin before configuring the ‘old permalink’ structure, just go back and deactivate the plugin, change the ‘old permalink’ structure setting and active the plugin again.
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Ok, here’s the EASIEST way to get the plugin working on a first try
1) Configure the ‘old permalink’ configuration according to dean’s instructions.
2) Activate the plugin.
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This is a great plugin, dean.
I’ll be mentioning it in my blog.
Keep up the great work!
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It works fine for me, thank you very much, I was really desperate, because some Trackbacklinks wouldn’t work anymore.
But I had problems first. You really have to update your permalink-structure after you have enabled the plugin! Updating the permalink structure, then activating the plugin doesn’t work!
Wanna see? new permalink vs old permalink.
Thank you again!
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Thanks a million for this plugin. I found it easy to use and your explaination was straight forward.
Cheers
Onlinegister
Great work. Your plug-in made my site reorganization really simple. It’s frightfully easy to use, assuming you already have a basic knowledge of permalink syntax.
Rock on.
-p