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301 Redirection Plugin – WordPress

Online Marketing Advisors — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:30:52 +0000

I’ve been meaning to write something on this plugin so now is a good time to do it. If you have recently moved your blog over from a different site and need an easy way to redirect your old pages to the new site then you might find this wordpress plugin useful. The Redirection Plugin from Urban Giraffe is a great way to redirect all of your pages. It is very easy to use and does not require any major skills to use it. Just simply type in the name of the page you want to redirect and then type in the name of the page you to redirect it to and hit save and it’s done, pretty cool huh.

This plugin was helpful for this site because there was an issue with wordpress and uppercase url extensions. It appeared that wordpress would not read the normal 301 via the htaccess file. This plugin solved that issue for us and we were able to move all of our old pages over to the new ones. Now it is just a matter time for google to pick up the changes and all should be well. I highly recommend this plugin if you are looking for a way to redirect pages using wordpress. As always thanks for reading.

Different Post Per Page – WP Plugin

Online Marketing Advisors — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:26:54 +0000

Another wordpress plugin that I found to be useful for this site is the Different Post Per Page plugin by MaxBlogPress. This is a real handy tool which allows you to set the amount of post which show up on your category and home page. This worked great for us because I only wanted show one post on the home page but at least 10 or more under the categories and search pages, this tool helped us to that. You can also set the number of post on subcategory pages as well.

To install the plugin upload it to your plugins folder and activate it, the plugin comes with its own setup page which I like. I think the only thing that I do not like that much is the process it takes to activate the plugin and the amount of emails that come after you have registered. The offers are not bad I would just like to less of them. Either way, I think this is a great plugin and worth installing. If you want your category, search pages and archives to each have their set amount of post then this is the tool that will get it done for you.

You can download the lastest version of the plugin here. Enjoy.

WordPress HTML File Extensions

Online Marketing Advisors — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:26:47 +0000

One of most annoying things I see on websites is when the pages do not end with an seo friendly url, you know the ones than end with numbers or ? marks and kinda look this http://www.xyz.com/press/releasedetail.asp?pressid=5. I just can’t figure out why people don’t take the time to fix this or at least find someone who knows how to fix it for them. When switching this site to the wordpress format I wasn’t sure if you could make the urls end in .html, reason being is because I hadn’t seen any that did, most would just end with say ‘site.com/contact/. Now there is nothing with that format but I prefer to have pages end with some kind of file extension.

In wordpress you can write a permalink structure for all post to end in .html, however this does not work if you create Pages, not sure why they set it up that way but that’s just the way it is. So if you want all of your pages and post to end in a .html format then follow the instructions below:

From the wordpress dashboard select Settings/Permalinks.
Under Common Settings select Custom Structure and type /%postname%.html/ into the field.
Save your changes. (View one of your post and you will notice that they end in .html but the pages do not).
Download HTML on Pages by IntroSites and upload it to your plugins folder.
Activate the plugin. (View one of your pages, example would be your contact page and notice how they now end with .html.

One note about the plugin, although it does add .html to your pages it also adds a trailing slash at the end of your post. Example: /pagename.html/ when it should read /pagename.html. In order to fix this you will need to install the Smart Trailing Slash plugin and activate it. This plugin will remove the trailing slash from the end of any page that ends with .html or .php, but will add a trailing slash if no file extension is present. For example, if you remove the slash from /%postname%.html/ and change it to /%postname%.html this would remove the slash from the end of the posts but your category pages would looking this: www.site.com/category/seo , the smart trailing slash plugin will correct this by adding the needed slash at the end of the folder.

For the most part you really do not need to do this to your site, you could still get good ranking results without doing it , but doing it will make your page names look alot more cleaner.

That is it, if you have followed the instructions above correctly then all of your pages and post will end in .html. For any trouble shooting questions please visit the authors of the plugins.