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Permalink redirection from 'Day and name' to 'Post name'

In my blog, I used the Day and name permalink structure for many days. Recently I came to know the SEO tips and made the permalink structure to Post name. So I migrated from: ...
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Catch 404 after changing permalink structure from /%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/

I made a site some time ago and after some days some posts were indexed by search engines. Today I changed the permalink structure from /%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/. After that, when ...
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Is redirection possible without WP permalink nor plugin?

I have to set a new version a site (which wasn't made with WP), and i need to 301 redirect my old pages for obvious SEO purpose. At the moment i have issues with my WP permalink rewriting, since i ...
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Problem with adding rewrite rules when using permalink redirection

When you change the post_name of a post, WordPress keeps the old post_name in the posts_meta table as wp_old_slug linked to the same post_id so the redirect from the old permalink to the new works ...
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Redirect single article permalink to paginated category page

Is it possible to redirect from a permalink (a single article) to that same post in a relevant category page, which might be paginated? So when people visit http://domain/post_number they get ...
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Passing the JQuery string to Worldpress URL

I have already followed the tutorial here: http://www.rlmseo.com/blog/passing-get-query-string-parameters-in-wordpress-url/ But it still doesn't work. In the function.php, my code is //decode ...
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redirect old pages by .htaccess

i want to redirect pages from www.sitename.com/sitename/pagename.html and www.sitemap.com/sitename/?page_id=213 to www.sitename.com/sitename/pagename how i can do that by using .haccess file i ...
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redirect loop to page, can't find origin, can't remove [closed]

I have a new client who did "something, I can't remember what" to her blog. Now when you visit the home page, it redirects to a page she created and deleted, "/road-maps/". I have no idea why it ...
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Redirect old permalinks to new permalinks

I changed the permalink structure from /%category%/%postname%/ to /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%// How can I redirect all old posts to the new ones (eg: via htaccess)?
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My wordpress site must be being affected by outside sources [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Error 310 too many redirects after switching domains Some of my pages are resulting in 310 errors. We recently switched domains from kgstiles.com to ...
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Post incorrectly displaying as page

I have a small WordPress install that I'm setting up, and have run into an issue that I've encountered before, but do not understand the cause. Issue: With permalinks set to /%postname%/, on a site ...
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Redirecting From An Old Permalink Structure

We recently launched a new site that has a different permalink stucture than its prior one. Old site URL was like this: http://centerline.net/blog/detail/?p=3989 New like this: ...
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WordPress 3.4 Permalinks Redirection Problem

A few years ago this was the permalink structure I had for my blog: /%year%/%category%/%postname%.html I changed these permalinks last year to this: /%category%/%postname%/%post_id%/ A plugin ...
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Test site pages go to main site

I have a test site installed on www.mydomain.com/testsite. The problem I have is that if I type in the url www.mydomain.com/testsite/about I get redirected to www.mydomain.com/about. My page for my ...
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wp_logout_url redirects to incorrect page because of pagination

Following a Wordpress Pagination tutorial, wp_logout_url( get_permalink() ); no longer redirects to the correct page. Instead of redirecting to say domain.com/page/2/, it redirects me to one of the ...
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Get permalink for a post from inside Wordpress and route to a related site

I built a mobile version of a wordpress site and added some PHP code in the wordpress index.php file to detect mobile users and HTTP-redirects them to m.website.com (which is not a wordpress ...
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Comment author url link is wrong? How to change from authors/ to author/

I’m maintaining a rather simple blog where a small number of people are registered as administrators to write posts. When making a link to the authors URL in a posts meta data, I use the function ...
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Change permalinks on move from one site to another

I'm in the finishing stages of moving a site from Wordpress.com to a privately hosted .org installation. I've purchased the site-redirect upgrade and this is working fine, however on the new ...
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Rewrite-Rules not working on a vhost, everything goes to index.php

after setting up the wordpress htaccess rules in my vhost, i was unable to enter the wp-admin area. I was always redirected to the frontpage of my wordpress instance. The rewriting itself worked on ...
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Auto 301 to full post permalink? (using /posts/%post_id%/%postname%)

I update my permalink structure to /post/%post_id%/%postname%, but if someone uses a URL like /post/1234 instead of the full URL of /post/1234/bingo-rulz, WordPress shows the post without giving a 301 ...
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769 views

How do I turn off 301 redirecting posts (not canonical)?

I noticed a strange behavior in WordPress where it automatically 301 redirects certain URL structures for posts. For example, I have a post entry for: mysite.com/999/about-us Then, you would think ...
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749 views

Passing variables through permalink structure

I have a WordPress page which is accessible via /accommodation/. What I want to be able to do is pass in a parameter using the URL - ie going to /accommodation/value1/ would load the same page as ...
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Changed permalink structure of CPT - should I redirect?

Following this answer, I recently changed the permalink structure of a custom post type called 'Literature' to include the taxonomy term: Old structure: mysite.com/literature/books/post_name New ...
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Multisite or redirect. Which way to go? [closed]

Hello I would like to split a Wordpress site in 2. one category of pages will be shown on: www.domain1.com and the other category of pages will be show on www.domain2.com. On the website hosting I ...
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301 Redirects for Changed Permalink Structure & Category Base

I'm redeveloping a site on a fresh WP install. The old site had the following permalink structure: domain.com/CATEGORY/POSTNAME/ The new site has the following permalink structure: ...
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Redirection Problem: Category and Tag Urls are redirected to articles pages [closed]

Hi I am running WordPress latest version, I have set the Permalink options as post url : /%year%/%month%/%day%/postname%/$post_id%/ category : pages Tags: topics Now when I click on any ...
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How to use different domains for different blogs hosted in the same host in subdomains with .htaccess

Background i have a website running on wordpress and all its files are located in public_html of my host. Within it i created a sub domain "phantomomaga" and redirected an other domain to that sub ...
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Need help with major category and permalink re-organization

I would like to re-organize my categories and the permalink structure. I want to rename and merge categories, make previous categories sub-categories and change the permalink structure from ...
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990 views

Wordpress permalink, stop redirection

I'm having some hard-time with with WordPress permalinks. WordPress 3.1 seems to force url redirection, ex: This is the correct post url: http://www.mysite.com/test/1/mypost.html If I go to any of ...
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WORDPRESS permalinks and page store

I posted this on stackoverflow and they said i can try here - I have wordpress installed on my website. On that site, under a subfolder i have oscommerce system installed as online commerce store. ...
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Nicest way to 301 Redirect traffic when changing permalink settings

If I change my permalink structure, is there is a nice way to handle when people/bots go to the old structure? I presume I can add use .htaccess and write a rule to redirect based on a 301 but is it ...
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How does WordPress handle permalinks?

WordPress auto corrects the permalinks(URLs) even if it is entered incorrectly. For e.g. WordPress will land you in example.com/some-post even if you enter example.com/idontexist/some-post or even ...
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301 Redirecting posts without %postid% (just %post_name%) in permalink to ones with %post_name%_%postid%

Just wondering if its possible to redirect existing posts which are permalinks of just %post_name% to %post_name%-%postid% ? Is there a plugin which can pick this up? Dont want to lose rankings on ...
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Wordpress permalink issue

If i try to access my wordpress page using the native url structure i.e. for instance: www.mywebsite.com/?p=123 I am redirected to my homepage. It doesn't seem to be an htaccess issue for I tried ...
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How can I force WordPress to redirect to canonical permalinks?

In WordPress 3.1 a post can be reached a number of ways, for example each one of these takes you to the same post (where /id is the base) http://myblog.com/id/1008 http://myblog.com/id/1008/my-slug ...
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Does WordPress send a 301 header message when you change permalink structures?

I have a super old blog that I upgraded from 2.0.7 to 3.1 by upgrading over multiple versions. One of my biggest concerns was losing all the link juice from my legacy URLs but they were clearly made ...
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If I change permalink structures, can I use htaccess to permanantly redirect links?

Ive got some super old links that have a lot of SEO juice and I dont want to lose that if I change permalink structure. This is partly due to the older version of WP i have (2.1) I want to use post ...
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Wordpress redirection problem after moving to a new server?

I've created a site using wordpress and i moved that from localhost to new server. The steps i've followed is just got backup of old db from localhost and uploaded them to the new server. Changed the ...
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URL rewrite based on a custom field value

I'm working on a migration from another CMS to WordPress. The old site had terrible SEO-unfriendly URLs in the format http://example.com?lid=1234. We have imported all the posts from the old site ...
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All pages load the home page if pretty permalinks are used

I'm trying to help a buddy out -- his site, on a fresh WordPress install, is behaving oddly. With default permalinks set, everything works, but with pretty permalinks set up, all of the pages on the ...
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htaccess or redirect to cloak portion of a link?

I have an ad rotate plugin installed to display a few ads on my site but the plugin is coded so that it uses the full directory in the ad count link. I would like to know if there's something easy to ...
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Strange behavior with a redirect loop - involves WPML multi-language plugin

I have a (client) site located at http://internationalgateway.us/. We are using the WPML Multilingual CMS plugin. When choosing another language from the homepage (in this case French, since that's ...
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301 Redirects for posts, category, pages from original domain to sub-domain of multisite

I want to move my blog from its original domain (site1.com) to become a sub-domain on another domain which is a multisite installation (sub1.site2.com). I also want to change the permalink structure ...
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How can I make internal anchor links work with WordPress's permalinks?

I've got a custom template page called 'shop', which is found at the URL http://mysite.com/shop/. This page lays out all the posts of post_type 'product' like this: <div class="product"> ...
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Using WP rather than .htaccess to redirect pages/posts

I run a site with over 100 specific redirects in the htaccess for legacy html files that were subsequently brought into WP. There are also rules for pages within a date range to redirect to the home ...