There are 3,319 WordPress plugins out there as of this instant. Some plugins like Akismet are very popular and come along with WordPress. But, some like Exec-PHP, though very powerful, are less known to people. So, starting from this week, every Wednesday, I’ll be picking a useful plugin from the directory and will be posting about it here. I’ll be calling this series as WordPress Plugin Wednesday – “WPPW”. (cool abbreviation huh ? I thought it out, trust me).
Velvet Blues Update URLs
Don’t get confused by seeing the plugin’s name. The first part is just the name of the developer’s site. The real function of the plugin is the latter part of its name. It “updates URLs”.
The plugin is only a little over a month old. But, it comes in very handy when you want to move your WordPress blog to a new domain, into a subdirectory or to a subdomain etc.. Though WordPress recommends not to use your domain name (or URL of your blog homepage) in your link, 90% of us bloggers are lazy (even me) to do it. We link to our own posts just the way we link to external sites.
So, whats the problem ? When we move our blog, all these links end up pointing to a 404 page. In order to fix this, we can use this Update URLs plugin. What the plugin does is that it goes through all the posts and replaces all the old URL with the new one that you specify. Now, don’t you call that an useful plugin ?
If you have any specific plugin that you want me to write about, you can let me know.
Well if you move to a differrent URL even if just a subdomain, subfolder you should keep the old pages anyway or better still set up the server to return moved permanently as HTTP status. Then you will retain the benefit of links from other sites as well.
Yeah, correct.. Thats what i did when i moved GotChance to this /blog folder.. A 301 Redirect using .htaccess
does it effect seo of the page ?
does WHICH affect seo ?
sim, no i don’t think so.
As long as you redirect using a 301 it shouldn’t effect the seo after google crawls it and realizes what you want.
ya for sure….this plugin is very much usefull.
For seo i think that after you are putting 301 for the url’s then you will have a decrease in traffic for a month or so …then it will come to normal
ITS ANYWAY BETTER THAN 404 since Big G hates that number…lol
this is in my top ten list
Wow…useful plugin. Thanks!
Pretty slick plugin! Can you review the All In One Seo plug in. Thanks
Can you tell me who did your layout? I have been looking for one kind of like yours. Thank you.
Seo seems so mystrious but actually it isn’t.
301 Redirection does the magic! You should choose one URL and set up 301 permanent redirects to tell search engines to pass the link credit from all pages that redirect to the page you choose (essentially add the links together).