Angsuman's Permanent Redirector Plugin
Overview
This plugin allows you to redirect (permanent redirect using HTTP status 301) any of your posts or pages to a different URL.
This enables you to transfer Google rank of your post or page (static page of WordPress) to a new page. Also the new page is displayed in search (Yahoo, Google, MSN etc.) results.
This is valuable when you want to permanently move one or more of your posts or pages to a new location.
The post/page content is not altered.
No configuration is required. Even your GrandMother can use it.
Compatibility
Works on 1.5.x & 2.0 codebase.
Update
For some users the plugin wasn't directly redirecting but bringing up an intermediate page. Brian found a solution to this issue. The plugin has been updated with Brian's fix. If you are facing this problem then you are strongly encouraged to download the new version. Otherwise you may continue with your existing version.
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