Wordpress redirect rules

What are the proper redirect rules when using permalink plugin in wordpress

[PrattTA1]

I just installed the permalink plugin on my wordpress blog, but am having trouble coming up with the redirect rules in my .htaccess file to redirect my old blog post.

I need to redirect a post like: www.my-blog.com/?p=13 to www.my-blog.com/post-name

What rules do you need to do this? Thanks for your help!

[g1smd]

Are you sure that you want the posts to be indexed under www.domain.com/post-name URLs?

You can't do this with a simple .htaccess rule. You'll need to modify the wordpress script to examine the requested parameter-based URL, look up the post-name in the posts database, and then issue a 301 redirect to the new URL.

There is a major problem looming should you ever use the exact same post name on another post at some point in the future.

There is nothing wrong with indexing of URLs with one parameter in them. I would have stuck with doing that.

[lammert]

There is a major problem looming should you ever use the exact same post name on another post at some point in the future.

My experience with WordPress is that it automatically detects possible duplicate post names and it will automatically add a sequence number to the URL when necessary. I.e. "a-post-name" becomes "a-post-name-2", the second time the title "A post name" is assigned to a post.

[g1smd]

That has to be scripted somewhere, so if you think it might do that, test it and make sure that it really does do that.

[agentvic]

You'll have to know the correct urls and do something like this in your .htaccess for each post you need redirected.

Redirect 301 /?p=13 http://www.example.com/post-name
Redirect 301 /?p=14 http://www.example.com/post-name
Redirect 301 /?p=15 http://www.example.com/post-name

and so on

[edited by: jdMorgan at 6:13 am (utc) on Jan. 8, 2008]
[edit reason] example.com [/edit]

[Marcia]

There should be something right in the interface for customizing permalink URLs (especially for WP2.3 which is much improved), and also check out some of the SEO plug-ins.

[g1smd]

@agentvic: You can't do this with a simple .htaccess rule. You'll need to modify the wordpress script to examine the requested parameter-based URL, look up the post-name in the posts database, and then issue a 301 redirect to the new URL.

[PrattTA1]

Thanks for the help everyone, I really appreciate it.