Assuming you have already changed the permalinks structure as @RickHellewell suggests, then you can do something like the following near the top of your .htaccess file (before the existing WP front-controller) to redirect the old URLs (with the stated format) in order to preserve SEO. RewriteRule ^\d{4}/\d\d/([a-z-]+\.html)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
The best way of doing that is actually by just copying the post to your new blog, and on your old blog, add a rel=”canonical” link to that page to your new post’s URL. This will notify Google and other SE’s that you want to have the other, new, page ranking, without actually having to … Read more
Short answer: No. When you’re working with SEO, there are three things to take into account: Site content Site meta descriptions Site findability (it’s a word, I swear!) Site Content Search engines will parse your site’s content looking for content and keywords. Create good, useful content and it will be fetched, parsed, and recorded appropriately. … Read more
You cad add it via functions.php with a hook, instead of inside the loop (you don’t really want to add a loop to header.php): function add_author_meta() { if (is_single()){ global $post; $author = get_the_author_meta(‘user_nicename’, $post->post_author); echo “<meta name=\”author\” content=\”$author\”>”; } } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘add_author_meta’ );
Didn’t try this myself (self-hosted from the start), but this seems fitting guide for your situation: How to Migrate your Blog from WordPress.com to a Personal Domain ( Digital Inspiration )
You should add your own custom query variable first: function add_search_store_query_var($vars) { $vars[] = ‘search_store’; return $vars; } add_filter( ‘query_vars’, ‘add_search_store_query_var’); And then add rewrite rule: function add_search_store_rewrite_rule() { add_rewrite_rule(‘stores/([^/]+)$’, ‘index.php?page_id=<YOUR SEARCH PAGE ID>&search_store=$matches[1]’, ‘top’); } add_action(‘init’, ‘add_search_store_rewrite_rule’); You can then use get_query_var(‘search_store’); to get search term. Just remember to flush rewrite rules, before you … Read more
It also doesn’t matter which URL part is changed, except the last one. So this still shows the content of the original page. Yes, because your taxonomy’s rewrite is hierarchical with the permalink structure /treatment/<term slug> (e.g. /treatment/psychosomatic) or /treatment/<term slug>/<term slug>/… (if the term is a child term, e.g. /treatment/psychosomatic/psychosomatic-dysfunction), so as long as … Read more
Here’s two different solutions (editing the specifics for your use case): Doing a Redirect: 1.) At the top of your /wp-config.php file add the following: if ( is_yoursite_blogger_domain( $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] ) ) { $domain = str_replace( ‘www.’, ”, $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] ); define( ‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://’ . $domain ); define( ‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://’ . $domain ); } else if ( … Read more
This appears to have to do with redirect_guess_404_permalink() called on line 96 of wp-includes/canonical.php. Just to test, I added a return false; to the first line of the redirect_guess_404_permalink() function, and that seemed to stop this odd behavior. I’m poking around a bit, but so far I don’t see a good way to fix this … Read more
By default the plugins are ranked by “relevance” and the only people who know how that algorithm is weighted work for wordpress.org (it’s doubtful they are going to let anyone in on it). Downloads and rating are not the main components, just one of many including keywords, date, and how many beers you buy Otto. … Read more