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• juliemarg said:

  Michael – I think I love you!

  Tonight I backed up my blog for the first time – thank you, then you just told me how to change my post names which has been aggravating me for an extremely long time. I particularly hate it when the post is something like
  http://thingsyoushoulddo.com/uncategorized/bourbon-branch-2

  that creepy uncategorized is always inserting himself…

• Thássius said:

  I tried this plugin on my blog, but since it’s using WordPress 2.3.1, the plugin doesn’t work anymore.

• Mike said:

  Great video !

  My problem is Categories though, not Permalinks.

  Can you tell me how to change Category names and not lose all the links I have out in the search engines ?

• Squeaky said:

  I have to agree that the default WordPress URL, really sucks. I am a new blogger and recently discovered that my blog was lacking in seo. This video made it very easy to understand and install, plus configure the plugin….

  Thanks……

• Greg Swift said:

  After installing the plugin and updating all settings, my old links in Google are taking forever to download. I had #6 and #11 for my key word and I’m worried that the long download times are going to hurt my traffic.

  Anyone else have this problem? I’m using a hosted Wordpress install with version 2.3.1.

  Thanks!

  Greg

• Eric said:

  Hi,

  I’m trying to migrate from the default wordpress permalink structure. When I enter / as the old permalink structure, it doesn’t create redirects. The old sucky permalink continues to render as it always has. What do I need to enter for the old permalink structure to get it to create a redirect?

  Thanks

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• DeeJay Marrulla said:

  Everyone is Happy, Thansks very good information, i try to change the permalink structure but everything was terrible. Finaly someone make a solution.

• Al said:

  It didn’t work for me. Please help. Do I need to upgrade my wordpress to 2.5?

• Freddie said:

  Thank you for this post. More importantly, thanks for the site. I am going to absorb as much as possible. I will subscribe, thank you very much!

• Affiliate Marketing Guy Ron Davies said:

  I have been blogging for some time, and in fact run one for each of over a dozen of my main products, yet I have avoided tampering with the Permalinks settings up until very recently.

  When I first tried to make a change, I had all sorts of errors, which as it turns out were the result of not fixing my .htaccess file.

  At that time, I changed the permissions to writable, and then WP re-wrote the file when I change the Permalink settings. I then just changed the permissions on the .htaccess file back, and all is safe and secure again.

  Another point would be to get rid of the “www.” where you set your blog url. The close you can move keywords to the beginning of the url the better.

  So, instead of “http://www.RonaldDavies.com”, I changed the settings under the “General” tab in WP to reflect the blog being at “http://RonaldDavies.com”.

  This way, and following category or post os moved left by 4 characters, and Google counts every one of ‘em!

  Cheers,

  great blogging!

  Ron

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• bodhi.zazen said:

  Thanks for this awesome information.

  I had some small issues, so I bloged

  http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/change-your-permalinks-in-wordpress-without-using-htaccess/

  In case anyone else needs this information

• shyam said:

  what was the need for wordpress to remove permalinks from 2.7.1 it is causing a lot of inconvenience to all.

• abhi said:

  wordpress needs to change the default permalink as most bloggers are unaware of it until too late

  http://techtadka.net/tutorials/web-tutorials/202-how-to-change-wordpress-post-url-permalinks.html

• Kenneth Hardy said:

  wow, great tutorial and done in only 2 minutes. Thank you very mutch. Took some searching and a bit of time to find this tutorial but it worked perfectly !

  Thank you very much!

• Kayye Nynne said:

  This was/is a great tutorial.

  I just upgraded my blog to WP2.9 and also MySQL 5.0 from 4.0 and it has been hellish!

  But somehow finally got the import of my database to take but all the internal pages were reading as Error 404 until I landed on this page of wisdom.

  Affiliate Marketing Guy Ron Davies’ comment was the nail that clinched this coffin.

  Once I got rid of the “www” in my blog URL every thing was just fine and dandy! Now that’s what I call solid advice!

  Great Tutorial…three thumbs up!

• Myspace layouts said:

  That was a cool tutoriaL!

  now i use it for my blog http://www.ninesixdesign.com

  

• Greenmagante said:

  I just changed my default permalinks to
  (/%category%/%postname%/)
  ..after doing this clicking on a post ..take to an error window.
  Plz Help.

• navapavan said:

  Thanks for sharing. Its helpful for new bloggers

• KJ said:

  Simply the best tutorial out there on the subject! I spent an hour browsing through other site for this info and about 3 minutes on your site and gotterdone! Thanks so Much!

• Kamal Hasa said:

  The migration plugin is just the coolest among all the 301 redirect plugins. Thanks..

• Eric Transue said:

  Great post and instructions on setting this up. Thanks for posting!

• Thom McNeilly said:

  Yet again, another well made and very clear tutorial.

• aaslin said:

  Very useful post,thank you so much

• vijayabalaji said:

  hi friends,
  plugins is temporary solution ,so that try to permanently,one of the reason plugins take time to load

• Alvin @ Computer Tip said:

  Hi,
  first of all, I would like to thank whoever made this article and the video. I find the video very funny yet USEFUL. It does help me a lot.
  I like the way Michael expressed his opinions in the video.
  Good one!