Independent Newspaper breaks all permalinks?

By admin • January 24, 2008

I really, REALLY, REALLY hope I’m wrong, but it looks as though the redesign of the Indy website has broken all the links to News Articles.

About 20 links I’ve put in in the last 7 days no longer work.

If they have done that without redirecting, they will probably be dropped from the roundup.

Please could others blog about this - it is serious.

Links to columns appear to still work.

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6 Responses to “Independent Newspaper breaks all permalinks?”

Chris Hawes
Fri, January 25, 2008 at 12:44 am | Permalink

Does in Indy hate blogs or what?!
admin
Fri, January 25, 2008 at 12:50 am | Permalink

They probably didn’t plan their new desi

It will break all the ones from the BBC and all the rest, too.
admin
Fri, January 25, 2008 at 12:53 am | Permalink

Ooops. Typo.

They probably didnâ€™t plan the migration to their new design thoroughly enough.

It’s not just blogs. It will break all the ones from the BBC and all the rest as well - anything that links where the pages used to be.

The Times put a forwarding redirect on pages they move.
Chris Hawes
Fri, January 25, 2008 at 1:09 am | Permalink

I that blogs probably link to them more than anything else, though.
admin
Fri, January 25, 2008 at 1:52 am | Permalink

Quite possibly.
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