Kudama

Got it!

I was just accidentally leaving in a variable from a sample I saw for a similar solution. So this works perfectly:

add_filter('the_content', 'rewriteURL');

function rewriteURL($URL) {
$URL = str_replace('http://domain.com/my-permalink', 'http://domain.com/', $URL);
return $URL;
}

Understood — great! I appreciate that it won’t be done overnight or even within several weeks. I was just wondering if you were working on it. Thanks!

In the mean time, I have a couple related questions. So I disabled CDN temporarily for one site just to do a speed comparison of it gzipped vs on the CDN.

Now in YSlow I still get the following problems:

CDN: F (expected here, of course)
Add Expires Header: F
Compress Components with gzip: B
Configure Entity Tags: D

So I checked another couple of sites where I hadn’t setup a CDN yet, and it got the same scores.

I then checked with Google Page Speed and received a warning to “Leverage Browser Caching.” Upon looking at the details, this warning seems to be invoked by the same problems causing the Expires Headers and Entity tags scores in YSlow.

Because YSlow indicated that the root domain wasn’t gzipped, I double-checked it at http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php, and sure enough, that tool indicates it isn’t gzipped either.

So two questions:

1. What can I do about the Expires Header and the Entity Tags. From the documentation I thought W3 Total Cache took care of these. Is there a setting I should adjust beyond the defaults?

2. Why does both YSlow and http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php see my sites as not gzipped when I’ve double-checked that ‘gzip and deflate’ is set on each of my sites? Is this problem with the way those sites check for gzipping or is there something I could be doing wrong?

The only settings I changed from defaults were HTTP Compression -> ‘gzip and deflate’ and Page Caching Method -> ‘disk (enhanced).’

I hope I don’t sound ungrateful with my inquiries. I think your work is awesome and I’m super appreciative. I’m just trying to determine how to correct these minor imperfections with my YSlow and Page Speed scores (and I want to make sure my sites really are being gzipped) and I realize I’m probably just doing something wrong or misunderstanding some detail.

Thanks!

I really don’t mean to be rude, but…. *bump*

Maybe if I state it more succinctly:

Is it okay if I use the redirect plugin to do a 301 redirect from domain.com/post-name to domain.com if Post-Name is stickied on the front page?

Would anyone see any problems with this solution?

Thanks!

That didn’t work.

But the p2pconverter plugin works perfectly. All I did was stop searching by “change page to post” or “page 2 post” and similar phrases to CONVERT page to post and this fantastic plugin dropped into my lap.

I can’t believe how easy it makes it. You just a big ol’ button within the page edit area and voila! Conversion complete. In case anyone comes across this thread looking for this solution:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/p2pconverter/

I appreciate your taking time to respond.

I don’t want two posts or two pages or two anything. I just want a single post at a single URL/permalink/slug.

I just want to clear the database of any evidence of the page, then take the same text and drop into a new post.

The problem is that the database for some reason keeps a reference to a page that no longer exists. So after I delete a page, I can never use that URL/permalink/slug ever again. That seems silly and there must be a way around it.

Thanks for the response and verification. 🙂

It looks like I can just tell the search engines which sitemap I’m feeding them with the following in the Robots.txt:

‘Sitemap: http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml’

Thanks again.