The issue has been pretty swiftly resolved. Having had yet another look at my htaccess file I figured out that because I am using the aforementioned redirection plugin it was messing with my custom written htaccess file and doing essentially the same thing twice. Easy – remove the custom written one and let the redirection plugin get on with doing its thing. I would prefer to be using the custom htaccess file as I think it would probalby give me better control over a few things, but it doesn’t automatically update and redirect files that have changed like the plugin does, so I’ll carry on with the plugin for the time being.
Next on my list of things to do to optimise for SEO is to get a breadcrumb plugin sorted. I’ve decided to go for Breadcrumb NavXT as its got overwhelmingly good reviews, and looks like it should be able to sort out any issues if I get stupid and put posts in more than one category – something I’ve just learnt today, posts only go in one category, and you use tags to further subdivide and classify posts. However people aren’t always as sensible as that and can put things into more than one category. This being the case, the breadcrumb plugin needs to pick one.
With a bit of hacking about in the single.php and page.php files of the theme it lloks like I’ve got an acceptable breadcrumb – they are a bit long, but appear to be working fine.
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