Comments on: WordPress 2.82 – Changing URL is Bad

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:44:33 +0000

No risk, as long as you have 301′s taking place on the old URL’s – WordPress SHOULD d othis manually – they dont always, and as this (old) post shows, they break in different versions. Change how you wish, but check for the 301′s.

By: sarah

sarah — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:37:52 +0000

Hi, there. I just want to ask you. What is the best way to change our url for SEO? I want to change my current url: site/category/postcontent.html with only the post content without category in permalink but i still confuse about the risk of it. Could you explain the risk in SEO, thank you

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:41:06 +0000

Apparently, this weeks hardening release has eliminated ANY redirect at all, and an edited permalink or changed permalink structure simply comes up 404. Wonderful.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:30:36 +0000

Scott, not a problem. As I mentioned on the other post, this isn’t a new phenomenon to WP 2.8.2 as I currently have older blogs that do the same thing.

Also, I have blogs (2.8.2 and 2.8.3) that are creating 301 redirects when a URL is changed so I’m not sure what the issue is.

Both flippingeasy.com and the site that are using 301 redirects are on the same server so it’s not a hosting issue.

Perhaps its a plugin or theme issue somehow?

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:59:56 +0000

Thanks for taking the time ben – I appreciate it – looks like 2.83 is out now too!

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:30:19 +0000

Mark, if the intent is that they serve a 301 redirect then the feature is not working properly.

I’ve created a quick test installation at http://test.flippingeasy.com that illustrates that it is in fact serving a 302 redirect.

However, I didn’t think this was new behavior for WordPress as I’ve seen it serve 302′s for some time now.

By: john andrews

john andrews — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:17:51 +0000

sorry – meant to also say that was WP 2.8.3 so there is no confusion. Wp2.8.3 was released last night, and still has the 302.

By: john andrews

john andrews — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:16:31 +0000

function “redirect” still is a 302 redirect (see wpp-apps.php line 1351)

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:16:59 +0000

I do see the video there, thanks, but I’m not sure what to say!

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:50:35 +0000

Thanks Michael, I was going to try what you emailed me, but I figure I’m safer this way – I break things too easily