I’ve just completed adding redirects to my .htaccess file for all my old posts. That means that if you try to browse to a file under the old structure (/archives/2005/08/10/back-to-work-part-4/ for example) you will be “redirected” to the new location of the article (/back-to-work-part-4/). When I changed the permalink structure, I forgot about the fact that all those old posts were indexed in the search engines. Well, when people went looking for them I started seeing 404’s all over the place. It took a while to get it all straightened out, but I’m glad it’s done … and I’m glad I only had a couple dozen articles to update! Boy, that would have been difficult on a super-blog with thousands of entries. And in a few months when everyone updates their bookmarks I will probably be safe erasing the redirects. For now, though, they will make life much easier on everyone.
~Jonathan
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