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Permanent redirects are great if you have moved a page on a server or if you have moved to a new domain name. This way all of your page rank is transferred through to the new page. Using the permanent redirect is search engine friendly.

Temporary redirects are good for affiliate links or links that may change around from time to time. No page rank is passed through a temporary redirect.

Below are some examples of how to use PHP and .htaccess to achieve these redirects. But obviously, don’t stick all of those header() calls at the top of one page, you only need one. Also you can redirect off your domain to a new one as well, but remember to use a temporary redirect unless you know for sure it is a permanent move.

The .htaccess can become crazy with regular expressions to match which file(s) get redirect. It’s just a really simple example to give you an idea to get you started. If you are looking for more do some searches and you should be able to find some great examples. I’d link to some but it can be really specific. I have included 2 examples at the bottom for using .htaccess to either remove or add the www if you want.

Using PHP

<?php
// 301 Moved Permanently
header("Location: /foo.php", TRUE, 301);

// 302 Found
header("Location: /foo.php", TRUE, 302);
header("Location: /foo.php");

// 307 Temporary Redirect
header("Location: /foo.php", TRUE, 307);
?>

Using .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301, L]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=302, L]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=307, L]

Redirect domain.com to www.domain.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301, L]

Redirect www.domain.com to domain.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301, L]

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But here is a real easy way to include it and it only requires you to edit your .htaccess and your server has to have Apache compiled with mod_deflate. Check out the code for your .htaccess after the jump.

# BEGIN Gzip
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript
</IfModule>
# END Gzip

You can adjust the code above to include or exclude any of the MIME types that you need or want. It will reduce the file size for those files which will speed up your site. There is a little more load on the server because of this, but it shouldn’t cause the server load to get crazy.

After you add the code to your .htaccess use this site to check if mod_deflate is available. If it isn’t ask your host if they can compile Apache with mod_deflate for you. Mine wasn’t initally and all it took was a support ticket. An hour later it was up and running.

If you are looking for an invite, please leave a comment with a valid email address and I will send the invite to that address.

It looks like Macheist is at it again.  A new puzzle started a few days ago.  Apparently in just under 1 day and 3 hours from now there will be an impact!  I’m kind of excited to see what kind of puzzles and apps come along with the Macheist bundle this year.  Anyways, last year Macheist broke everyone off into 4 teams.  Blue, Green, Orange, and Purple.  I made a quick script to colorize your avatar.

Just upload the image and select the team you are on and your image will be shaded with the appropriate color.  The script works best with solid images.  It seems to have an issue with images that have any kind of transparency in them.  If you have any problems please let me know so I can fix them.  Thanks!

http://www.sevenpixels.com/macheist-colorize/

So here’s the situation: Every major browser is about to support the ability to link to a font. That means you can write a bit of CSS, include a URL to a font file, and have your page display with the typography you expect. For designers and developers, this is a significant step forward. No longer will you need to trap your content in images or Flash just to express yourself visually. Pages will be more usable, accessible, and indexable. This is a massive upgrade for the web.

But there’s a problem. While it’s technically quite easy to link to fonts, it’s legally more nuanced. Almost all fonts are protected by copyright — even those available for free — and very few of them allow for linking via CSS or redistribution on the web. This is understandable; font files represent countless hours of finely detailed labor. Appropriately, type designers are concerned that they’ll lose control of all that hard work.

That’s where Typekit comes in. We’ve been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license. We’ve built a technology platform that lets us to host both free and commercial fonts in a way that is incredibly fast, smoothes out differences in how browsers handle type, and offers the level of protection that type designers need without resorting to annoying and ineffective DRM.

As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’ll be able to use real fonts. This really is going to change web design.

There isn’t much to it, just unzip “remove-internal-nofollow.zip” and then upload it to your “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.  Once that’s done visit the Installed Plugins admin page and activate the plugin.  There are no settings to configure.

Download remove-internal-nofollow.zip (4 KB)