Comments on: WordPress 2.82 May Hurt Rankings

By: Twitter for Business

Twitter for Business — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:13:23 +0000

I’ve just stumbled across this site and, as a WP user I’m stunned by the amount of SEO issues this raises.

Have we heard any news from WP about this issue? If we’ve lost traffic and rankings, is there any way of restoring them.

Matt

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:35:22 +0000

This is an insane decision by someone – WordPress 2.85 (upgraded) is now reporting 404 for either a single changed permalink, or changing permalinks site-wide.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:39:40 +0000

Sorry, but that's really old - In this really short video i demonstrated that the 301 was working -

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:36:30 +0000

Sorry I never answered this – Well I can’t speak for that version, and have none to test any more, but it seems to me that I remember it being “right” earlier than that… Huh.

Anyone know what version it was where they introduced the feature called – “You don’t have to edit .htaccess anymore when you change a post category or edit a permalink”.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:30:09 +0000

Absolutely, Ben, the issue certainly can be worked around, but it shouldn’t have to be – especially since it all worked correctly just a few versions ago.

The vast majoriy of people won’t / don’t even know there IS a problem, much less will they take the time to edit their .htaccess or install a plugin.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:16:37 +0000

Yeah, really serving up 200′s for old links is even worse than 302′s.

The issue can still be remedied by a) not changing your link structure b) using an .htaccess file to control the redirects c) using a plugin such as redirection to create the proper redirects on a page level basis.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:59:14 +0000

They’re at 2.84 now, and it’s still not “right” in my opinion – old permalinks now return 200′s!

By: Wen Hosting Reviews

Wen Hosting Reviews — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:18:16 +0000

Nice man. I tried them and got the results as you have stated. Will they rectify that in the next edition?

By: DanOfSoCal

DanOfSoCal — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:46:16 +0000

Be careful with your bets. If you’re not pulling in any traffic to begin with, then you won’t lose any traffic when switching to WP 2.82.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:17:34 +0000

Ok, I’ve just performed a test using a WP 2.7.1 install (I have no idea why I still have one of those) and can verify that it too is serving up 302 errors.

There is NO reason not to upgrade to the newest version and I would recommend a plugin if you’d like to automate the process of creating 301 redirects when your permalink structure (or any URL for that matter) changes.