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More WordPress 404 Errors

by | Apr 22, 2010 | Wordpress

I accidentally came upon another way that WordPress isn’t working quite right, so I made a quick 2 minute video. Over at SEO Automatic, I had created a page long ago to use for a new feature, my Automatic SEO Tip of the Week but I never made it live because I...

WordPress Forces 302 Redirect

by | Dec 9, 2009 | SEO, Wordpress

I love WordPress, I really do, but i just screwed up a site by changing a bunch of permalinks to 302’s. Worse, WP won’t allow me to change it back without digging into the database, so I effectively rendered my child page permalinks (URLs) useless. In this...

WordPress 2.82 – Changing URL is Bad

by | Jul 21, 2009 | Wordpress

In WordPress, the traditional behavior of the past few months has been that if you edit the Permalink of a page or post, the old URL will generate a 301 (permanent) redirect to the new URL. This action follows SEO best practices, and in general it follows...

WordPress Checklist Now a Plug-In

by | Jan 19, 2009 | Wordpress

I can’t even begin to count the number of WordPress blogs that I’ve set up personally, much less count how many have been done by various members of our team. We used to use an actual checklist, to ensure that everything was done the right way with...