Wordpress Plugin of the week - Redirection
After the migration of my blog, the permalink structure for WordPress is different from Blogger. This cause most of my previous posts to display 404 error messages. To remove it from Google index, you can use the Google Webmaster tool to remove them. The problem is, you can only remove only one at a time using URL removal request tool.
Redirection Plugin
That’s why I use a plugin called Redirection to redirect all 404 request to my sitemap. This way, anyone who comes into my blog using the old url will be redirected to my sitemap and they can find the content that they want. You can choose to redirect to your archive or any url you want. There is also one option to redirect all your WWW to non-WWW and vice versa.
Now, you will ask me why I didn’t just redirect the expired url to the new permalink. Well, that’s because to do that, you need to know how to use regular expressions to change a range of url. I don’t know how to do that at the moment.
Results
Over the past 2 days, I have 62 visitors where 13 of them went to my sitemap (according to Google Analytic). I will assume the 13 visitors was redirect there by the plugin. All of them will have encountered the dreadful 404 and leave if I have not redirect them. That’s how useful this plugin is.
Is there an easier way to repair the old permalinks? Please comment or contact me by email to tell me.
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August 29th, 2007 at 12:08 am
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September 2nd, 2007 at 6:15 pm
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September 3rd, 2007 at 2:17 am
That’s a good use for the plugin. I might try out that idea some time.
September 6th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Hi Michael,
Good to know you find my posting useful. Thanks.
September 16th, 2007 at 4:36 am
Hello, Nice blog posting about ss Plugin of the week - Redirection at BlogMunch. I would have to agree with you on this one. I am going to look more into url redirection. This Saturday I have time.
September 16th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Thanks url,
I am finding good uses for it too.
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November 15th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Great Article - will prove very useful, in my article you can see I’d been using the 301 redirect but this plugin may make things even easier.
Thanks for the image credit - so many people just grab pics and think nothing of it.
David
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:32 am
Very nice article, keep up the good work! Game me some great ideeas.
January 19th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
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February 8th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
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Jim Mirkalami
March 1st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
redirection is the way to go
June 21st, 2008 at 10:34 pm
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