I doubt your URL structure will matter much for SEO. For more advice on this you can ask a question on the Pro Webmasters Stack Exchange site. As Chip said you can change the Posts page under Settings → Reading to move your post index to http://example.com/blog/. The Front page is what people will see … Read more
Yes you need 301 redirection and you will carry on your SEO juice to the new URLs.
One way to do this is to use the status_header filter. Adding the following to the functions.php file or your theme (or an appropriate plugin file) would do the trick: add_filter( ‘status_header’, ‘your_status_header_function’, 10, 2 ); /** * Substitutes a 202 Accepted header for 404s. * * @param string $status_header The complete status header string … Read more
My understanding is that it counts the hits for the homepage and all archive pages, specifically the ones you mentioned.
It’s a valid theory and under some circumstances such micro-optimization might make a difference (making content fit into single packet rather than be split into two). However you misinterpret the size information. 8.5KB is gzip-compressed version of your page. Since repeats of same string are highly compressible, your optimization won’t reduce this by 5KB. How … Read more
If your theme is using add_theme_support(‘title-tag’), then you can try the following: remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘_wp_render_title_tag’, 1 ); and then just hook in your own modified version: add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wpse_render_title_tag_with_itemprop’, 1 ); function wpse_render_title_tag_with_itemprop() { if ( did_action( ‘wp_head’ ) || doing_action( ‘wp_head’ ) ) { printf( ‘<title itemprop=”name”>%s</title>’ . PHP_EOL, wp_title( ‘|’, false, ‘right’ ) ); … Read more
You can do that programmatically right from inside the plugin’s settings by using the wpseo_canonical filter. You can also set it on a per post basis: You can even set the canonical links for categories, tags and any taxonomy for that matter as well. All you have to do is follow instructions at Canonical URLs … Read more
Here’s an (untested) example where we inject into the header tag on attachment’s pages, the canonical link of the attached post: add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wpse_attachment_parent_canonical’ ); function wpse_attachment_parent_canonical() { // Only target attachment’s pages if( ! is_attachment() ) return; $object = get_queried_object(); // Make sure we’re dealing with a WP_Post object if ( ! is_a( $object, … Read more
That would be an extremely tricky approach to the problem I think. If your end goal is the replacement of one template with another (a migration), then a more standard approach would be to install an new WordPress instance on a different URL. Perhaps using http://new.example.com (a subdomain). This is then your “development”, or “staging” … Read more
Basically a duplicate of this question. It comes up a lot, and the remove category base functionality probably should be an option in WordPress to be honest. Here was my answer from there: No Category Base plugin to remove the /category/ bit from the URL. 🙂 If you have a page with the same name … Read more