http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: Need to change Permalink without breaking indexing en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:48:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/241186#post-978880 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:06:41 +0000 pro102 978880@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Update: after checking with Apache developers, they claim that there is no way for htaccess to look up postid, therefore what needs to be done is adding code in php script. </p> <p>anyone knows the file which needs to be edited in wordpress, to make a 301 redirect through PHP? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/241186#post-978137 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:39:07 +0000 pro102 978137@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'd be happy either a line of code to try, or if there is a site/page somewhere on the net (or in the wordpress docs) that teaches how to build 301 redirects from /%postname%/ to /%postname%-%post_id%, that would work too. </p> <p>Cheers<br /> Nick </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/241186#post-978042 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:11:33 +0000 kwbridge 978042@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Yeah - I always struggle when I do them which is why I didn't give the htaccess line you needed. Maybe someone will come along who understands it better than I do. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/241186#post-978031 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:56:01 +0000 pro102 978031@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks KW. Regarding the redirect (question 2), I'll take a look at the plugins but since it would be a structural redirect that applies to all post URLs, I'm thinking there must be a one-line code I could add to htaccess? I just don't know how to generate that line of code. </p> <p>Nick </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/241186#post-978004 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:37:11 +0000 kwbridge 978004@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>1. I think you are better off putting the date in front of the postname than post id. Post ID is just a number - it doesn't contain any information about the post. Posts aren't indexed by their newness - they are either indexed or they are not. It's placement in the index depends on a variety of factors such as page rank, keywords, links to the page ...</p> <p>2. You could use the Permalink Redirect Plugin</p> <p><a href="http://scott.yang.id.au/code/permalink-redirect/" rel="nofollow">http://scott.yang.id.au/code/permalink-redirect/</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/241186#post-977998 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:23:40 +0000 pro102 977998@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi all: I've recently discovered that using /%postname%/ only for permalinks on posts is not scalable. My site has currently a small number of posts (25) and about 35 pages. Likely I will eventually have 100s of posts, so before it's too late it seems I need to change Permalinks. </p> <p>Question 1: shelf life with %postname%-%post_id%<br /> If I now use %postname%-%post_id%, will the URL have a shorter shelf life on search engines? Concern is whether Google and others will see this as a "news post" and only keep it indexed for a few weeks. </p> <p>Question 2: how to re-direct searches until engines re-index the new permalinks?<br /> I believe I need to make changes to the htaccess file and add a re-direct, from /%postname%/ to /%postname%-%post_id%. Any idea how to do this? First time trying to do such a thing. The re-direct will need to only apply to posts, not pages. </p> <p>Thanks in advance<br /> Nick </p>