[wp-testers] Wordpress scaling problems

[Paul Robinson]

Thanks for that Otto. I've used the Permalink Redirect & switched my
permalinks back to the classic year/month/day/postname. It looks a lot
better to me & that plugin works like a dream.

Thanks once more.

Paul.

2009/1/29 Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Paul Robinson <pablorobinson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I was considering changing them but will redirection handle that sort of
> > permalink change?
>
> Sometimes the canonical 404 guessing function can handle it. Not often.
>
> There are plugins which can handle this though. Permalink Migration
> and Permalink Redirect come to mind. Basically, they give you a config
> page where you can put your old permalink string, and it will
> recognize and send the user a 301 redirect to the new correct
> permalink. This allows search engines to recognize that your
> permalinks have changed and they will alter their URLs accordingly.
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