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Changing WordPress Permalink Structure!

Keiron — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:45:15 +0000

If you can see this, all has gone well – if you can’t I’m probably talking to myself (nothing unusual there!!).

My current permalink structure has not sat well with me for the last year or so, it’s kind of thrown together and doesn’t look particularly nice… I’ve been itching to change it, but never dared (after all this blog has a reasonable PageRank and gets a decent amount of traffic!). The time has come to bite the bullet.

I know what you’re saying:

“Just go ahead – change the damned things – why should we care?”

Well it’s not quite that simple, changing them has a few knock on effects:

All my internal links to older posts referencing them will be broken.
All links by other people to my older posts will be broken (this is really bad in my opinion as I can’t contact them all to fix them!).
The search engines probably won’t like me much any more (and I quite like them, so this is also quite bad!).

Solutions

Well I put out my request on Twitter and got all of two responses (and one retweet), the first didn’t understand the question at all and suggested I just change them and install All-in-one SEO. The second was more useful and suggested the Platinum SEO plugin (my concern with this is how it might react with my already install All-in-one SEO).

This really leaves me with the Permalink Redirect plugin which sounds like it might do exactly what I want through 301 redirects. I’ve heard good things about Dean Lee’s Permalink Migration plugin, so I think we’ll give that one a go!

Well it seems to have worked – but I’m convinced that the databae should be updated – that would make more sense to me than a permanent 301 redirect… Is that possible?

3 Spam Comments!

Keiron — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:43:56 +0000

I normally login to my admin site to find “Spam: 3,472” comments (or some such other high and random number!!).

Confession time. I broke my blog last week whilst doing an upgrade (trying to auto-upgrade post suPHP being activated may have been a mistake) and it forced me to audit my plugins.

I’ve always like the idea of Akismet, group filtering etc. However I spotted some of the comments over at the WP-SpamFree plugin page and decided I’d got nothing to lose (other than a lot of time wasted looking at comment spam!

Installed earlier in the week and 3 days later I have JUST 3 Spam comments…

Elizabeth: The Golden Age psp I’m a happy man – Matt you should think about this plugin!

Posting YouTube Videos (Again!)

Keiron — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:24:23 +0000

You may remember many moons ago, I posted about what a bind it could be to put YouTube videos into WordPress Blogs (because WordPress got all excitable and corrected the HTML).

Today I discovered a post from Caroline about a plugin that does the job!

YouTube Brackets means that to insert a video I now do this:

[ youtube=xxxxx]

Where xxxxx is the URL of the video!

This is the video posted yesterday about RFID cloning and how it was tagged!

[ youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isKnDiJNPk]

And I can now insert this video that made me laugh yesterday:

Auntie Spam’s Gone Away!

Keiron — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:06:09 +0000

I’m a big fan of Auntie Spam for cleaning out all the rubbish that Akismet collects, but this appears to be something that no longer works in the 2.7 upgrade – I just hope someone updates the greasemonkey script!

Coltrane Here We Come…. WordPress 2.7

Keiron — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:58:55 +0000

I’m incredibly lucky to have WPAU on my blog which has made the upgrade to WordPress 2.7 (Coltrane) relatively painless..

This is probably the most talked about release in the WordPress history, with blog after blog discussing it. So here goes:

Logging in WordPress I see the familiar:

WordPress 2.7 is available! Please update now.

Luckily because of WPAU I also see….

Click Here to Automatically Upgrade WordPress to latest Version.
Clicking the Auto Upgrade, I do the usual things:
- Fill in my FTP details
- Backup files
- Backup Database (all my tables – why is there not a check all option in WPAU?)
- Fetch the latest version.
- Put the site in maintenance mode
- Deactivates the plugins
- Upgrades the installation files
- Upgrade the database (we haven’t had to do that for a long while!)
- Reactivate plugins (One plugin didn’t reactivate dofollow.php – but it never does!!)
- Takes the site out of maintenance mode.

Well it doesn’t seem to have broken anything externally and does look quite neat and tidy inside the admin area!

Change Permalink Structure?

Keiron — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:20:19 +0000

I don’t particularly like my current Permalink structure, has anybody had any success with Dean Lee’s Permalink Migration Plugin?

Auntie Spam

Keiron — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:33:13 +0000

I’m always loathed to just click the “Delete All” in my Akismet Spam box – just in case there’s something there I really would like to read, or even edit to make into quality content. However I really can’t face piling through pages and pages of spam with links to all manner of things…

Then I found Auntie Spam, a script that works with GreaseMonkey in Firefox (you should already have GreaseMonkey installed if you’re using the Google Reader timesaving preview.

Apparently:

Akismet Auntie Spam is a kind old lady who will come to your house and give it a thorough cleaning. She’s not afraid of the dark corners, particularly the spam inbox because she knows exactly how to handle the creepy crawlies hiding out of sight.

Auntie Spam has just deleted all 104 spam comments that Akismet spotted, and I’m 100% sure that none of them were false positives! Job done in a matter of seconds!

Full throttle feeds – Now available – Subscribe Today!

Keiron — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:07:21 +0000

Get your full feed right here …. For today only … Roll up, roll up…..

Actually I lie, it will be staying a full feed (for now at least!), I’ve had summary feeds turned on in the past to encourage people to come to the site, have a read and a browse around rather than just reading that one article that appears as my latest post in my RSS feed.

I realised that I still browse to the website of many of the people’s blogs I read, if I want to comment (or use my fancy new Preview in Google Reader!) and often summary posts don’t tell me enough about the content of the post to even be bothered to go and look!

Also summary posts don’t contain style, or neccesarily the most important part of the post that you’re trying to get across..

So why not subscribe, and see what a the new full feed looks like?

Incoming Links not working

Keiron — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:19:55 +0000

I noticed the other day that on a blog I admin that Incoming Links wasn’t working in WordPress, I scratched my head over it for a few minutes.

Then did the sensible thing and went to Google Blog Search to check their were actually incoming links to the site! Entering:

link:http://www.domain.com

Revealed a few links… They should definitely be showing up in the WordPress Dashboard.

Then I realised the cause of the problem, when people linked to this site they were linking to (quite rightly) http://www.domain.com. The blog actually lived in http://www.domain.com/blog.

A quick move around solved the problem – I suspect I could still have it in /blog/ using Permalinks and the files being in the root, but I’m not really that worried – the domain will only ever be used for blogging.
photo credit: wakalani

Showing some Luv!

Keiron — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:50:00 +0000

I’ve installed CommentLuv here today, to reward my comment authors more (particularly now the comment policy is in force and I feel perfectly happy about blowing away any comments that are spammy or I don’t like! )

We all love comments, but CommentLuv takes this one step further and places a direct link to the comment authors latest post – underneath the comment.

They promote both their site (using the URL field of the comment), and their latest post – now that is quite a reward for engaging with you!

It will automatically fetch your latest post from your feed to display it and in the latest version the comment author can specify their feed by putting their feed url in between [feed] and [/feed] at the end of their comment.

What are you waiting for? Try it now!

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