Anyway

While upgrad­ing my Word­Press install­a­tion, I decided that the permalink struc­ture’s inclu­sion of the “/archives” string was super­flu­ous. http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/2007/10/04/sample-post/ con­tains as much rel­ev­ant inform­a­tion as http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/archives/2007/10/04/sample-post/. So I changed the permalink struc­ture, and also installed Dean’s Permalinks Migra­tion to take care of the 301 redir­ec­tion of links to the old URLs. So far it seems to work fine; if you don’t like your permalink struc­ture any more but don’t want to risk people get­ting 404s, try it out.