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[JCKOnline]

Sorry for all my questions! 🙂
One more thing how could I change the permalinks without losing social sharing counts and seo and ranking?

[nutsandbolts]

Here is a tutorial for adding a back to top button: http://sridharkatakam.com/add-working-return-top-page-footer-link-genesis-themes/

As for the permalinks, you would need to generate a 301 redirect in your site's .htaccess file to let search engines know that your permalink structure has changed. Yoast's website has a permalink generator (assuming you're switching to /postname/ from something else) that will create the redirect for you, then you just need to copy and paste it into your .htaccess.

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[JCKOnline]

On their website it says:

You don't have to do any redirects, WordPress will do it for you. But if I do it I wouldn't keep the socail sharing counts.

[nutsandbolts]

That is true for new sites where you change from the default permalinks to a different type. But on an established site that has been indexed by search engines, a 301 redirect IS necessary so that any links to or within your site using the old permalinks won't result in 404 not found errors.

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[JCKOnline]

So I how do I do it?
Keep in mind that I want to keep how many people liked on facebook or shared it on twitter.

Thanks!

[nutsandbolts]

This article from Yoast should help you: https://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[JCKOnline]

This is the link when it say: You don’t have to do any redirects, WordPress will do it for you.
And when I change it my social counts dissapears on the posts.

[nutsandbolts]

What are your current permalink settings and what are you wanting to change to? What is the reason for the change?

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[JCKOnline]

Here is an example: http://www.wristreview.com/?p=9017
I don't know it maybe looks better to have the postname... 🙂

[nutsandbolts]

Okay, I definitely recommend using /postname/ versus the WordPress default permalinks (which are horrible for SEO). In that case there is generally no need to do a redirect - WP can handle just switching away from the default. The problem comes when you're already using one type of custom permalink and switch to another, but that's not the case here.

By switching away from the default permalinks, unfortunately you will lose your social share counts. However, even though your blog is established and has a ton of posts, the change would benefit you greatly in the long run. It's a tough decision - if it were mine to make, though, I would change them.

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[JCKOnline]

Ok! 🙂
But isn't there a way to fix it to keep the social share counts?

[JCKOnline]

Because some of them have several hundreds of likes and so on...

[JCKOnline]

????

[nutsandbolts]

Since the shares are tied to the post permalinks, there is no reliable way that I know of to maintain those counts if you change permalinks. I've never dealt with going from the default to /postname/, however, since I always change permalinks first thing, so I'm not sure what would happen.

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[JCKOnline]

Ok!
Thank you!

Do you know how I could do the sidebar widget area wider?

[JCKOnline]

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