Updating WordPress permalink structure
I just read Caroline Mibblebrook’s ebook about setting up a profitable niche site with WordPress. I sort of understood what a permalink was from some other research but she finally brought it home for me with it’s relation to SEO (search engine optimization) and just human read-ability.
I wish I would have read it BEFORE I setup my blog. Since I’m a tech guy myself I do have a bit of a tendency to dive in first, then go back and do more research when I have too. Not always the best way to do things. This change isn’t going to cause me too much difficulty. I think I only put out one or two trackbacks and a comment or two that links straight to an article.
The interesting thing is the links I put out there didn’t break, what broke is the permalink on the site. I don’t know the inner-workings of WordPress, but this seems a fair compromise. I’d rather have people coming in from the internet get to the post they expect to see. I guess the problem is any future links could be difficult.
Although I don’t think it was really meant to be, or at least not the primary goal, I think Caroline’s ebook also makes a nice intro to setting up a site/blog with WordPress. I’ve been planning to convert my alpaca farm site over to exactly what she’s talking about as a basic site with a blog. Shortly after I started working with WordPress I saw the potential for using it as a content management system, and not just a blog.
This was a very useful read with lots of good tips.
Allen
P.S. Now we’ll see how the permalink works with this first post after the change.