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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Hello, I’m having an issue concerning a permalink change, from /%post%/ to /%post% many months ago. I have been receiving a ton of 404 page errors ever since and tried to remove them using the Google Webmaster Tools to no avail. They seem to come back as 404 errors. I want Google and other search engines to index my tags. I have blocked them from indexing my categories, archives, etc.
What I’m getting are urls with an ending back slash which causes the 404 error. Also, I have deleted many tags many months ago that keep showing up in those 404 errors as well. So in other words, the deleted tags and ending / are both causing the 404 errors.
Take a look below…
http://internettvdotcom(dot)com/tag/premium-tv-for-pc-download/
404 (Not found) 5 pages Dec 24, 2011
http://internettvdotcom(dot)com/tag/internet-tv-quality/
404 (Not found) 4 pages Dec 24, 2011
http://internettvdotcom(dot)com/satellitetvtopc/ => no tag
404 (Not found) 10 pages Dec 24, 2011
I’m looking for a permanent solution to this issue and wondering if anyone has any ideas.
Will Dean’s Permalinks Migration Plugin help?
Hi Dean,
Can you tell me if this plugin works with 3.2.1 and 3.3 Wordpress version ?
Thanks
HI THANKS TO SHRE THIS CONTENT.
ITS A VERY USEFULL,
THANKS A LOT
do i have to leave the plugin installed for ever?
I installed the plugin it works, but after logging off i cannot get the wp-admin page to login anymore. anyone?
Thank you so much …
Big help …
~Have a wonderful day!
~Debbie:)
i'm just download this plugin :)
My permalinks used to be set to /archives/%post_id% (yes, without a trailing slash) and in 2007 I changed my structure using your plugin - (Fantastic, and I even wrote about it at the time) - - www.pdxtc.com/wpblog/seo/changing-wordpress-permalink-structure/
Just today, I noticed over 500 "not found" 404 errors in my Webmaster Tools control panel - Turns out all my old links are going to a 404 -
The plugin has stopped working - I'm not sure when, but we update Wordpress regularly……
The admin panel for your plugin does show the correct data - Any ideas for me?
Hey! Dean i used the plugin but how can I keep my old likes, twittes, digs and the social traffic. When I did all the changes now is all gone
hello
i am a real newbie with a quick question, can i use this plugin to redirect my blog post url to my homepage? ie if the link is clicked in the search engine results then the person is directed to the home page?
sorry for the 'probably' stupid question
thanks