The WordPress permalinks structure defines what your post URL’s look like. It is therefore a good idea to have the structure easy to read as it enables humans and make give the content has a longer shelf life as people are less likely to click on links that are years old.
Everyone starting a new blog should go to http://
If however you have been running a blog for sometime you may already have posts that have been indexed by search engines and saved as favourites. What you want to avoid is people coming to your site and not getting what they are expecting.
I’ve recently stumbled upon this tool which supplies the necessary code to insert into your .htaccess file and thus redirect browsers to the correct place even if they are trying to open a link on your old structure. It’s dead easy to use and works instantaneously.
If you want to read about this further have a look at this post.
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