{"id":1527,"date":"2009-12-09T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2015-02-23T09:52:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:52:55","slug":"wordpress-forces-302-redirect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/seo\/wordpress-forces-302-redirect\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Forces 302 Redirect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love WordPress, I really do, but i just screwed up a site by changing a bunch of permalinks to 302&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, WP won&#8217;t allow me to change it back without digging into the database, so I effectively rendered my child page permalinks (URLs) useless.<\/p>\n<p>In this short video I&#8217;ll show you exactly what not to do -( besides assume that WordPress will work the way it&#8217;s supposed to).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/search-engines\/wp-2-82-may-harm-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\">WP hurting search rankings<\/a> before,\u00a0 and while changing the LAST part of a permalink does now seem to 301 correctly,\u00a0 in this case, changing the permalink of a parent page causes a 302\u00a0 temporary redirect of all the child pages.<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, kills your PageRank and effectively removes any inbound link equity that those pages may have obtained.\u00a0 Nice, huh?<\/p>\n<p>*Update 12\/15 &#8211; We are now <a href=\"http:\/\/scott.yang.id.au\/code\/permalink-redirect\/\" target=\"_blank\">using this redirection plugin<\/a> on all new or upgraded WP installations until they fix it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[flash http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/vids\/wp-302-still\/wp-302-still.flv]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love WordPress, I really do, but i just screwed up a site by changing a bunch of permalinks to 302&#8217;s. 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