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WordPress Plugin: Permalinks Migration

Last week I decided to change my permalink structure from:
/yyyy/mm/dd/post-slug/ to /post-slug/
For a lot of reasons…one to mention is…SEO!

Anyway, for this reason I asked for the rewrite rule that I should use for this propuse, in the ConnectedInernet Forum and Ajay offered me a nice Plugin called ” Permalinks Migration“.

It`s really a great plugin, that makes it easy to change your permalink without messing with your .htaccess file.

But since the real reason of writing this article is to review this plugin. And when I saw JohnTP`s post about it. I must say that it has some disadvantages!!!

The plugin it self works great, but it messes with my Old Feed Links!
What I mean, my old feed links was, obviously,
/2006/01/12/what-ever/feed/
and the new structure will make them looks like
/what-ever/feed/
But this didn’t happen, unfortunatly! and I started to get a lot of 404 errors!
So I asked for a solution in the WP support forums, and the guys treat me very well!
By adding this rewrite rule to my .htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/([^/]+/feed/?.*) $1 [R=301,L]
and everything is ok now.

So should you use this plugin?!
Well I don’t know, first try to ask for a rewrite rule in WP support forum or in ConnectedInternet forum and then after the plugin is fully completed, you can use it!

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6 Responses to “WordPress Plugin: Permalinks Migration”

  1. Thilak on February 28th, 2007 7:42 pm

    I agree, It messed quite a bit… I guess I’ll have to do it the hard way by modifying .htaccess file

  2. Ajay on March 1st, 2007 5:27 pm

    Have you folks tried to contact the author with this?

  3. admin on March 1st, 2007 5:51 pm

    Well Ajay, I tried to drop a comment when the problem happened, but I couldn’t make it happen(posting a comment!)

    Anyway, I wrote a comment now, hoping Deen to pass by and see the problem.

  4. Alpesh on May 30th, 2007 3:32 pm

    Hi,
    I would like to do this. Plugin does not work for me :-( Don;t know why?
    Could you please advise, what I need to do change the structure?

    Thanks

  5. admin on May 30th, 2007 7:00 pm

    Hi Alpesh,
    What do you mean by this?
    Does it gave you an error?
    instructions are easy,
    put in “Old Permalink Structure” from the plugin panel your old structure I think it`s:
    /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
    ad then change your permalink to what you want..in my case I`m using /%postname%/

    If you still facing problems with the plugin you could ask for support in the original site.

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