I Changed Permalinks!

For any webmaster, probably the scariest thing is changing your website’s URL. Hence, for bloggers, it is no different. Well, today, I took the step of changing a permalink structure that I’ve stuck with for the last two years. The structure I originally had was:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

And the one I have now is:

/%category%/%postname%/

Now, you are probably thinking that I’m going to lose out big time on linkbacks and search engine traffic, considering I am no mod_rewrite expert and .htaccess being anything but a friend to me. Well, fortunately, I guess there were more poor souls like me wanting to change their past permalink structure and a plugin was made to help these souls. Dean’s Permalinks Migration is the plugin I installed here at ahnternet and so far, it seems to be redirecting just fine.

Simply log in to your WordPress admin panel, install the plugin, and the plugin will give you an input form where you input your former permalink structure. Once you update the plugin with the past structure, you are good to go and change your permalink. The plugin will (or should) recognize the old format and redirect the visitor/robot/spider to the new format.

Update on possible downsides with this plugin will come if there are any.