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WordPress Plugin for Permanent Redirection of Posts - Angsuman's Permanent Redirector PluginJuly 5th, 2005 Angsuman's Permanent Redirector Plugin
Overview
This plugin allows you to redirect (permanent redirect using HTTP status 301) any of your posts or pages to a different URL. This enables you to transfer Google rank of your post or page (static page of WordPress) to a new page.
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Small performance enhancements
Movable Type / Typepad importer fix
Enclosure (podcasting) fix
Bugtraq reported issue & backporting of security enhancements from 2.1 (nonces)
Misc. fixes etc....
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February 6th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Yes, canonical URLs are “built-in” to WordPress 2.3+, however, as you mention, the redirection is happening at the PHP level, which is slower and requires more server resources than if it were happening directly through Apache. This built-in PHP redirection is perhaps good for users of WordPress 2.3 who don’t have access to httpd.conf/htaccess, but for users of older versions of WordPress, or for those of us who prefer to handle URL redirection via Apache, there is a much better solution for permalink canonicalization.
February 7th, 2008 at 12:15 am
If you’re interested, Mark Jaquith has a full writeup on the Canonical URL feature here.