July 16, 2008

Blog upgrade and permalink change

The Wordpress team released their latest offering of their fantastic blogging platform yesterday, so I took the opportunity to upgrade our system. We’re now running on 2.6 and it allows for a lot more functionality in the editing suite. The side by side edit comparison is particularly useful in the environment that the Scheme works in. There’s also a good explanation of the use of cookies within this opensource software by Ryan Boren. They’ve released a short video of the changes, which as you can embed, I thought I might as well….

The Wordpress team released their latest offering of their fantastic blogging platform yesterday, so I took the opportunity to upgrade our system.

I’ve also taken the opportunity to change our permalink structure as well to the following SEO friendly URL type:

http://www.finds.org.uk/wordpress/index.php/541 -> http://www.finds.org.uk/wordpress/national-archaeology-week-is-coming

To ensure that all our old permalinks redirect with a 301 to the correct post and our search engine ranking have been maintained, I’ve used a plugin by Dean Lee which was very simple to use. There are several others out there that you could try out if you want to do the same thing. The permalink structure I’ve taken up is /%postname%/ and if you’re interested in other combinations for updating your URLs, check the Wordpress codex for the correct syntax.

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