News and views from a Software Architect and Web Entrepreneur on Java, PHP and Web 2.0 Technologies. 2009-11-04T16:53:55Z WordPress http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cool-seo-redirection-feature-in-wordpress-23x/feed/atom/ James http://www.macmanx.com/blog/ http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cool-seo-redirection-feature-in-wordpress-23x/#comment-479344 2008-02-07T06:15:58Z 2008-02-07T06:15:58Z If you’re interested, Mark Jaquith has a full writeup on the Canonical URL feature here.

]]> Jeff Starr http://perishablepress.com/ http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cool-seo-redirection-feature-in-wordpress-23x/#comment-479335 2008-02-06T18:41:52Z 2008-02-06T18:41:52Z 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.

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