Change shortlinks to Permalinks

  • SO!

    The content on my site is VERY fluid, and in the coming months pages will have new parent hierarchies in the backend. This will obviously mess up in-page, cross site links (like a link in the middle of a page to another page.)

    My solution is to use shortlinks throughout the site, so they remain working no matter how much I change the page’s hierarchy.

    Problem is, /p=34234 is not exactly helpful for Google ranking. So, I’d like wordpress to automatically chance the shortlinks to the page’s permalink instead. IS this possible, with either a plugin or a setting?

    Thanks in advance

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  • You can change your permalinks Settings -> Permalinks.
    As for the hyperlinks in the middle of page to another page: It is my understanding that when you add the hyperlink if you selected the page/post from the “Link to existing page” (instead of typing in the URL) once any URL’s are changed those will change for you automatically.
    Does this help?

    Thread Starter pushthepixel

    (@pushthepixel)

    Hi Overhall,

    Thanks for the reply!

    The problem is that I’m using a 3rd party template, and it has different little add-ons that can add a link. While the core system link system can automatically change the links, WordPress won’t change 3rd party plugins that place links.

    So what I need is something that will automatically change those shortcode links to permalinks no matter how they are placed, even if its through a 3rd party plugin.

    Isn’t that fun? ??

    Oh Lordy! Good luck I don’t have a clue. Sorry I could not help however I will surely pray for you – LOLOL

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