Are your permalinks killing your wordpress pages or posts? Fix it.

I swear this isn’t becoming a WordPress admin blog, but that’s what’s been on my mind lately.

If you move a wordpress blog, or update it, or it’s a full moon, sometimes your content disappears. This is more common when you’ve set your permalinks to /%postname%/, meaning you want your links to look something like this: http://blogityblog.com/kickass-post/

… and if something gets jostled, even if it worked in the past, your pages and posts start kicking out 404 errors. Like I just found! One possible solution is to try installing the Permalinks Moved Permanently plugin. It’s an optionless plugin that does one thing: it takes 404 errors, searches your blog for the possible relavent post of the same name, and assigns it a 301 redirect.It’s good for your structure, it’s good for your blog, and it makes google love you. Use it.