• I would like to change my standard post permalink to something new but don’t want to loose visitors or google search page rank. Is there any plugin or hack available that will redirect visitors from old permalink to the new one automatically?

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  • You may like to try Permalink migration Plugin from here. I haven’t tested it though!

    https://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/

    HTH

    S.K

    Anonymous User

    (@anonymized-473288)

    Which server type are you using? Apache/ IIS?

    Thread Starter levani01

    (@levani01)

    @kichu

    Have you tested this plugin with wordpress 2.8.4? As I see it hasn’t updated since 2007-6-17.

    @design_dolphin

    I use Apache.

    Anonymous User

    (@anonymized-473288)

    One way of doing it is: at the bottom, below all your other stuff, of your .htaccess file in the root of your WordPress installation you can add the following:

    Redirect permanent /path/to/old/post/old_post_name.html https://www.yourdomain.com/path/to/new/post/new_post_name.html

    And change the url path, post name, and domain name to what you need.
    Please note that everything has to be on the same line (no carriage returns).

    To learn more you can do an internet search on:
    Redirect permanent
    Redirect permanent .htaccess
    Mod_rewrite
    Mod_rewrite .htaccess

    The different options depend on whether you can configure the server yourself, or a third party does this. Use .htaccess in this case for example when you are using shared webhosting. Be aware that it can pretty technical stuff, in the beginning. Once you know your way around it gets a bit easier, usually.

    You can leave the code there until everybody has updated their url path. For example search engines. AFAIK having lots of rewriting can cause slow down for a website. So optimally I remove them after everything has updated on the internet.

    Please note: I am not sure if technically speaking the code has to be at the absolute bottom of the .htaccess file after all the other stuff in the .htaccess file, that is just the way I learned it.

    If you’re not sure what you are doing ask someone before implementing.

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