[wp-hackers] Legacy URL WP_Rewrite

[Mike Schinkel]

On Nov 19, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Vincent van Scherpenseel | dotBlue wrote:
> 
> Yeah, that would work but then you would be stuck with a whole lot of
> 301's in your website.

Not sure what is wrong with that.  That is what 301s are for.  Over time there will be less and less traffic coming in over those URLs and more coming in over the new URLs.  Google and others will adjust accordingly.

> Perhaps with a bit of coding, on top of the 301
> redirection, you could walk through all content and translate all old
> URLs to their new counterparts?

Hmm.  That's what I was suggesting, I think....

-Mike