Comments on: WordPress Hack #12: Changing Permalink Structure Seamlessly

By: admin

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:51:07 +0000

I don’t think it matters what order. I don’t know about the vulnerability – I no longer use this plugin personally since I changed my permalink structure years ago.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:27:33 +0000

this looks great!

Does it matter which ORDER you UPDATE the permalinks and the migration?

also I found a post that says this plugin creates a vulnerability and supplies a plugin (called 1.1-gx) to stop that vulnerability. Is it worth putting in the extra plugin or not?

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:47:29 +0000

“Dean admits on his blog that his plugin does not work for redirects from ?p=#. Wouldnchaknowit. Anybody know a way around this?”

I have tried dean’s and a couple more plugins without success, edited the .htaccess file and still cannot change my permalinks structure. Could it be WP backend or server config side?

I wouldnt of thought it would be this fiddly.

Anyone have thoughts or work around?

Cheers,

Phil
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By: Private school guy

Private school guy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:22:28 +0000

Dean admits on his blog that his plugin does not work for redirects from ?p=#. Wouldnchaknowit. Anybody know a way around this?

By: Chris @ Driving Spirit

Chris @ Driving Spirit — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:57:27 +0000

What a great tip! I've been wanting to do this for a while now, having started off my blog with the year/month URL. Downloaded the plugin, installed, followed your instructions and it worked. Permalinks changed and redirected in a couple of minutes! I wish I'd found out about this a few months ago. Chris @ Driving Spirits last blog post..20% Off Osram Nightbreaker Headlight Bulbs

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:28:16 +0000

Glad I ran across this post. I've been contemplating changing my permalink structure from /%postname% to /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname% but I'm not so sure I'll be doing that anymore. Shanes last blog post..Wii Fit is Awesome

By: Chris at prepaid cell phones

Chris at prepaid cell phones — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:10:46 +0000

Great point about post dates. It seems like the best idea is to leave them out of the URL--even though I still include them on one site I run. But it makes sense to not have the dates there and instead just have the keywords from your post title. Much cleaner looking too. Chris at prepaid cell phoness last blog post..Get a Free Cell Phone Headset Online

By: How To: Making Your Old WordPress Posts New Again

How To: Making Your Old WordPress Posts New Again — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:39:54 +0000

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By: Dudu

Dudu — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:35:29 +0000

I was thinking that maybe it could be better (SEO speaking) to use a tag in the permalink. But maybe you're right. Anyway, thanks for you're answer. Dudus last blog post..Passagens Gol com milhas do programa Smiles

By: admin

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:03:30 +0000

@Dudu – Maybe you misunderstand how tags and categories work. Each tag has it’s own page, and each category has it’s own page, and posts (in those tags and categories) are listed on their assigned pages. It would be redundant to have /%tag%/%postname%

Also, ever tag and category assigned is usually listed in the meta of the post, it would be of no use to have it in the URL, and of very little use SEO wise.