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1. the kitesurf centre
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Hi All,
   I have just upgraded my site to the streamline theme which has categories and sub categories, unlike the my previous website.

   All my SEO work is for www.mywebsite.com/thepage

   so very simple, clean and tidy. Adding the caterogies now changes it to
   www.mywebsite/thecatergory/thepage

   which is going to mess up all my backlinks and SEO work.

   I have checked with the settings and permalinks and I believe it is possible to change it back to original URL's with the custom structure but I'm struggling to see how.

   Its currently on /%category%/%postname% in the custom structure, I have played around with this a little but can't seem to be able to take out the 'thecatergory' part or event edit this park when trying to change the permalink on the page edit.

   This is really important do to previous back links so if anyone has any ideas or ways to change it, I would be really really grateful.

   Many thanks.

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Plugin might help that:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scategory-permalink/installation/

   And just in case you need it:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

3. the kitesurf centre
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Many thanks for this reply, I will look into it.

4. the kitesurf centre
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Hi,
   I have been playing around with this again but can't seem to get it to work. The permalinks are fine if its a main page (the 6 across the top navigation bar) but as soon as I move these into a parent page, it adds the parent page into the url

   So, what I'm trying to say is we want it to be www.mywebsite/thepage
   rather than www.mywebsite/parentpage/thepage

   Is there any way to take out the parent page part on this theme?

   I'm not sure the plugin above allows this?

   Thanks for the help, I am not particularly good at this part!!!

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