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Admin Links Plugin Updated to 1.4.0

It’s been a good long while since I’ve had the time to make any changes to the two WordPress plugins I’m supporting. In fact if WP 3.0 hadn’t broken one of my plugins there’s a good chance I wouldn’t have made this change either.

That said, there’s a fresh version of the Admin Links plugin available and this one is compatible with WP 3.0.

In case you’re not familiar with the plugin, it provides access to common admin features from the public side of the site. Visible to logged-in admins, and completely invisible to the great unwashed masses of the interwebs.

Download it directly from WordPress.org.

Moving? Redirect with htaccess and 301

Image Credit: Shannon K on Flickr

If you’ve ever moved your site from one server to another, or changed domain names you know how difficult it can be to redirect all your old traffic to the new location. Here’s a quick trick to make the transition totally seamless.

Redirect 301 / http://kdmurray.net/

This will redirect every URL beneath the root (” / “) to it’s corresponding URL at mynewsite.net. So if you had a blog post from a couple of years ago that you migrated to the new domain, you can redirect the old URLs (which may have been cached in a search engine) to the new site to drive all that traffic to where it should be going.

In addition the 301 code (see HTTP 301) will tell web browsers & search engines that the page has been permanently moved which will help to ensure that the old site is no longer cached.

This should work with Apache on both Linux (OS X, unix etc.) and Windows.