Like it or not, you already always going to run into problems when running a web site or blog, and when things start getting messy with urls and redirects, you can be in a lot of trouble. The importance of having the right linking structure on your site is key to site navigation and search rankings.
A great tool that will help you manage your internal and external linking trough WordPress, is a free plugin called Redirections. The video below will walk you through the process of how to use Redirections to setup new 301 redirects using this plugin and WordPress.
As fun as it is to run your own site or blog, no one wants to really mess around with coding, or wants to learn how to fix problems like this. Fortunately through the use of plugins like Redirection, these problems can be tracked and fixed with a simply copy and paste of a few urls, then a click of a mouse.
