Comments on: Old Post Slug — WordPress Removal and Cleanup https://www.farinspace.com/removing-wordpress-old-post-slug/ Practical Real World Web Development Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:38:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Dimas https://www.farinspace.com/removing-wordpress-old-post-slug/#comment-37584 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:38:18 +0000 http://www.farinspace.com/?p=2596#comment-37584 Agreed, best solution prior to removing old slugs, is to 301 redirect the links that you care about.

]]> By: Zukas https://www.farinspace.com/removing-wordpress-old-post-slug/#comment-37559 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:42:26 +0000 http://www.farinspace.com/?p=2596#comment-37559 That was exactly what I was looking for. Thank You !

]]> By: Chad Eisenhart https://www.farinspace.com/removing-wordpress-old-post-slug/#comment-37517 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:23:04 +0000 http://www.farinspace.com/?p=2596#comment-37517 The problem is that if Google already indexed the page and you change the permalink the page is “Not Found”. So when ever I change the permalink, I try to make an effort to remember to manually 301 redirect the old page to the new page.

You can also check for page errors in Webmaster Tools by going to Crawl – Crawl Errors – Not Found (look for tab on right)

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