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Interestingly, if you check out the URIs generated by WordPress through a ’standard’ site, you should notice that all the URIs do in fact have a trailing slash on them.

I’d begin to wonder how the results for mtsend have multiple entries. I initially thought, it might have been caused by people linking to that article with and without the trailing slash, which would/might cause two entries in the Google index. However, if you use a link: to the URI without a trailing slash, it returns no results.

Do you have any thoughts how you’d get multiple entries?

Al.

That’s a possibility – there might be someone who linked the entry without the trailing slash. Googlebot followed the link, and subsequently indexed the same entry again with two totally different URL’s. But I guess my point is, WordPress should handle this situation by doing a redirect to the correct permalink, instead of just serve the content. Googlebot would be happy to take a 301 and follow to the new location.

I’ll see whether that entry goes away from Google’s index when they update the next time.

You should put this in the plugin directory.

That is in fact just one example: this plugin will also redirect stuff like http://yourblog.ext/?p=123 to the correct permalink IRI. Thanks for this kick-ass piece of coding, I hope it will get into the core soon.

I want try this one.

Thanks for nice plugin

(off topic : I noticed that there is something weird with something I identify as my IP 2 Nation plugin. The first flag in comments has an alt tag with “from France”, which is my country, and then every flag has the alt tag of its predecessor one. Weird heh :)

Looks awesome! Great job!

Ozh,

Thanks for the spotting! It is indeed a typo in my template. Fixed now.

Everyone,

Thanks for the comments. I’ll try to get that registered as a WordPress plugin today.

Ohboyohboyohboy this is going to simplify BOTD coding when it gets into the core. You rock.

I have just one question.

Does it modify /foo-bar and make it /foo-bar/ or does it take /foo-bar/ and make it /foo-bar ??

I mean does it add or remove the slash?

If such a system is used could it solve this problem of mine?

You ROCK!

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! Well done!

Thanks for the plugin, I too find it important to redirect people to the proper canonical URL.

As far as I figured out, then it doesn’t treat URLs to pages, only to posts. Could it be updated to handle pages too?

Very nice! This fixes a problem that was bugging me last week when I discovered pingbacks had stopped using the permalink structure. It was just an upgrade snafu, fixed easily, but I had left a week or two of pingbacks scattered around the web with an ugly/redundant index.php?p=xyz link. (Not to mention all the duplicate links from people leaving out the trailing slash.)

Awesome plugin, thanks Scott!

Tried installing using 1Click install. I get this error:

Fatal Error: Couldn’t download one-click archive from ‘http://scott.yang.id.au/file/php/ylsy_permalink_redirect.zip’

When I activate your plugin, the JÄÅ Preview plugin stops working.

The JÄÅ Preview plugin launches a new browser window with an URL of this type: [blog URL]/?name=preview&idpost=[post ID]. However, if your plugin is activated, the browser is redirected to an URL like this: [blog URL]/archives/[year]/[month]/[day]//. Would you care to check this out, I’ve looked at the code of both your plugin and JÄÅ Preview but even though it looks simple I have no experience in writing WordPress plugins.

Hello,

I found it can not convert something like “/?m=200504″, it should be “/2005/04″ but it always turns to be “/2005/06″ (current month).

I looked a bit further into the problem and I discovered that it had nothing to do with your plugin! :) It was the fact that the post slug was missing that prevented the URL from loading (hence the empty space between the slashes at the end of the address).

Congratulations for your plugin, it’s really useful.

:oops: I missed the trailing slash at comment 23,“/2005/04/″and “/2005/06/″.

Very nice!

It’s not working entirely for me though.

Could it be that I purposefully do not have trailing slashes on my site? That is, My permalinks are /%year%/%month%/%postname% and not /%year%/%month%/%postname%/

Joen, I have the same permalink structure as you do, and (that part of) the plugin works perfectly on my blog.

I am having that problem too though, but then with category permalinks. Those look like this on my site: http://mathibus.com/archive/topics/php (note the lack of a trailing slash, which is intended). Your plugin seems to redirect that kind of stuff to http://mathibus.com/archive/topics/php/ (with the trailing slash). The thing is, I have mod_rewrite rules in my .htaccess that redirects IRIs that end with a trailing slash (unless the requested file is a directory, of course) to the same IRI without the slash… Which makes your plugin conflict with my .htaccess and thus cause a redirection loop. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Great plugin. Thanks.

Actually Scotty, I can see a Permalink Redirect plugin available. Did you add it to wp-plugins.net?

Also, check out steelpixel’s hack to include pages as well :)

I think I may have found a small bug. If you make any alteration to the post slug in the URL (while this plugin is active), the custom 404 page is not loaded. Instead, you’re either taken back to the main page of the blog, or taken to a blank page.

Hmmm, just the ticket… more or less. :D

Scott: I’m trying to figure out whether your plugin will solve a really thorny technical problem I’m having. I migrated my blog from typepad to wp retaining the same domain name richardsilvertein.com. But typepad permalinks have this format: http://www.richardsilvertein.com/tikun_olam/yr/mo/day/i_have_a.html format. Many people are using old format hyperlinks to get to the same posts but in my new blog (via search engines, links in other people’s blogs, etc.). Since I’m using the same domain for my WP blog, they ARE getting to my new blog site. But I can’t figure out a way to use mod_redirect/htaccess to convert those old links into WP’s http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/yr/mo/day/i-have-a/ format (which is the path structure I’m currently using) so that they can not only get to my new site, but to the specific post they’re seeking.

Is there a way your plugin will do this?

ANother ?: when I click your download link I don’t get an actual download. My FF browser merely opens the file in a new browser screen & I see the code. How do I download it?

Hello scotty,

Another format that does not redirect by the plugin (0.3)
/index.php?paged=3
will not redirect as
/page/3/

Will you add this? Thanks.

Hey guys,

A little late here, but, I found an .htaccess file that adds the trailing slash automatically. I initially searched for this because yahoo automatically strips the trailing slash. :(

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/38441

Scott – any chance this script could be modified to handle Typepad’s truncation? Typepad truncates titles to 15 characters and then ads a numeral for dupes. I.e. the first instance of a URL could be:

…/example_of_post

and then a second post with an identical first 15 characters would be,

…/example_of_post_1

I want to migrate to Wordpress but have to find a way to maintain my URL’s. Unlike Movable Type, Typepad doesn’t give the option to keep long page names intact.

I came here from a google search for wordpress permalinks. I wanted to know how wordpress ensures that two blog with the same titles have different permalinks? Any ideas?

Hey mate, thanks for the Permalink Redirect WordPress plugin. Verry usefull 4 me. John :-)

Awesome plugin, thanks Scott!!

Thanks, very good plugin. I am searching exactly for such a plugin :)