Afer spending some time using WordPress you might realize that your permalinks structure needs some changes. There is only one problem: Google has already indexed your page and many sub pages with your current permalinks structure. It’s really annoying to get a 404 ERROR page every time getting into a site from Google. What you need to do is… just install one plugin!
Permalinks Migration Plugin
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.
Permalinks Migration Plugin allows you to redirect search engines and browsers from one structure to the other.
Example: Old structure is: http://openwp.org/2007/title/ and now we want to have http://openwp.org/title/. Everything you have to do is set redirection in the plugin options - just give it your old structure and update your permalinks structure via the Admin Panel.
How to install
- Open admin panel go to options and next: PermalinksMigration and set the old structure.
- Now change your permalinks structure into something new!
- You’re done!
Personally I think this is a really useful plugin for people who launched their WordPress blog not being an expert, and now realize that their links looks awful.
