Permalink changes are done in the admin panel > Options > Permalinks by typing in the new structure and hitting “Update”. The rest is done by WP 🙂
Links to your old URIs would result in 404, unless you manually set up some .htaccess rules to redirect the old addresses to the new one.
Search engines? I don’t know if they get a 404… (never really interested in this stuff, and one day discovered my nickname here gets quite highly ranked 🙂 But one thing is for sure: it will take some time until the SEs will index your new URIs.
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sren
(@sren)
Thanks moshu, great hints as always 🙂
Do you think there’re some drawbacks if I leave “/%postname%” ?
I’ve been reading that setting the permalinks like this is sort of “deprecated”.
I am not a SEO experts by no means.
You know as well as I do that on the net you can find about anything at least one “pro” opinion” and one “con”.
It’s not what was said – but who did say it? 😉
If the post titles (and the slugs) are good, informative, descriptive – I don’t see why would it be wrong (or “deprecated”). But again, I know nothing about SE and I don’t care about them.
I also changed my permalink structure, but found a plugin redirecting old urls to new ones.When someone come from google to my old pages ,they are redirected to new url.
http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/
and click to try:
http://www.racingvideoz.com/2005/12/11/ferrari-f430-top-gear-video
I had more or less the same problem but I made a custom 404 page rerouting everybody to the route of my blog.
http://www.gumball-3000.com/rally/
Try it with any non existing page. Should work fine.
