John Godley

Provides advanced permalink options that allow you to:
<ul>
<li>Have multiple permalink structures. Permalinks can be assigned to posts or ranges of posts</li>
<li>301 redirect old permalink structures (many structures are allowed)</li>
<li>Category-specific permalinks. Posts in certain categories can be assigned a permalink structure</li>
<li>No need to have a base to the category permalink!</li>
<li>Change author permalinks</li>
<li>Enable periods in permalinks – perfect for migrating old websites</li>
</ul>
All permalinks are real permalinks and do not result in 301 redirections. This means you can change your permalink structure without 
affecting any existing posts and without losing any page rank. Any attempts to access posts in the wrong permalink structure will be 
automatically redirected to the correct URL.
Advanced Permalinks is available in: 
* English 
* Bulgarian (thanks to Alexander Dichev) 
* Belorussian (thanks to Marcis Gasuns) 
* Russian (thanks to Slava Mikheev) 
* Uzbekistan (thanks to Alexandra Bolshova) 
* Lithuanian (thanks to Nata Strazda at Web Hub)
<h4>Example 1: Migrating a permalink structure</h4>
Say you have an existing site with the default WordPress permalink structure <code>/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/</code> and you decide you want to change it 
to a more keyword-heavy <code>/%category%/%postname%/</code>. If you change the permalink setting then all your old posts will be moved, and you will suffer a major loss 
of page rank (not to mention a lot of 404s). With Advanced Permalinks you can define a specific permalink structure for all your old 
posts and then create a new permalink structure for new ones. All your old posts will carry on living at the same URL as before, but all 
new posts will be created using your new structure.
<h4>Example 2: Category-specific permalinks</h4>
Sometimes you want posts in a certain category to appear elsewhere on your site. For example, your usual permalink structure may result in:
/2007/05/02/my-review
However, you want posts in the ‘review’ category to appear as:
/reviews/my-review
Using Advanced Permalinks this is not a problem.
<h3>Documentation</h3>
Full documentation can be found on the <a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/advanced-permalinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Permalinks Page</a> page.

Advanced Permalinks

Allows multiple permalink structures and category-specific permalinks without needing redirects.

Svetoslav Marinov

orbisius

If you have an existing website and you want to add category to your blog posts links (e.g. by using: /%category%/%postname%/ in Settings > Permalinks) then your visitors 
will most likely run into page not found errors. This plugin checks for such post links and redirects the visitor using permanent (301) redirect to the correct /Category/Permalink link IF the permalinks are setup.
This plugin assumes that you have previously used /%postname%/ in your Settings > Permalinks.
Demo 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L124jV5joTk
Bugs? Suggestions? If you want a faster reponse contact us through our website’s contact form [ orbisius.com ] and not through the support tab of this plugin or WordPress forums. 
We don’t get notified when such requests get posted in the forums.
<a href="http://orbisius.com/go/intro2site?permalinks-to-categorypermalinks" rel="nofollow ugc">Free e-book: How to Build a Website Using WordPress: Beginners Guide</a>
<h4>Author</h4>
Svetoslav Marinov (Slavi) | <a href="http://orbisius.com" title="Custom Web Programming, Web Design, e-commerce, e-store, WordPress Plugin Development, Facebook and Mobile App Development in Niagara Falls, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Web and Mobile Programming by Orbisius.com</a>

Permalinks to Category/Permalinks

While it may seem trivial, switching from permalinks to a prefix using a category is tough. Slavi's plugin works just as expected and works out of the box. Definitely recommended.

Works as expected, thanks!

The plugin automatically redirects users who have accessed a blog post link without the category to the one which has the category and therefore avoid …

Advanced Permalinks vs Permalinks to Category/Permalinks