With the November 30 move to the new LDS.org, many people have asked what to do with links to LDS.org that they already have in blogs and on websites. The good news is that these links should redirect readers to the new LDS.org.
The LDS.org development team has made great efforts to redirect major pages (such as magazines, manuals, general conference talks, scriptures, gospel topics, and temple pages) from the old LDS.org to the new LDS.org. If an old page on LDS.org doesn’t have an equivalent page on the new LDS.org, the page will still work for now. Hopefully, no links should return a Page Not Found error. If you find any such broken links, please let us know so the development team can update the logic in their redirects.
These redirects should remain in place about a year, but will eventually be retired. Therefore, we invite you to update your links to the new URLs, which will remain in place long-term.
Another reason to update to the new URLs is that they are “friendly,” meaning that they contain logic and key words which will enhance search engine optimization. For example,
- lds.org/friend/2010/01 is the January 2010 issue of The Friend magazine
- lds.org/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-1-our-father-in-heaven is chapter 1 of the Gospel Principles manual titled “Our Father in Heaven”
If your blog or website has links to content on LDS.org, you should update these links to the new URLs. Since the LDS.org development team has redirects in place, you can click on an existing link, and then copy the new URL that results from the redirect. Use that new URL as the link.
Even though the old site is available at classic.lds.org, we do not recommend creating any permanent links to classic.lds.org. These old pages may disappear at any time, and would create a Page Not Found error.
I’m not sure how to report this but http://www.christmas.mormon.org is broken. It is published on the Joy to the World pass along card.
That Christmas link is clearly broken, all present copies including two packages I picked up last month of the pass-along card have that URL on the back of them. Have given out at least one this year alone myself and have given some to others to give out.
Roark and James,
Thanks for pointing this out. It’s fixed now.
How to web administrators access the Administrator Options on the new.lds.org? Is there a way to import the photos already posted on the classic version? Can an administrator post photos or is it now only accessed by the individual members?
Byron, I’ll have someone from the support team contact you.
Byron:
Bishopric members, clerks, secretaries, and ward website administrators have default admin rights in the new calendar & directory apps. If you don’t see
* Upload Photos
* New Photos (0)
* Manage Photos
on the left hand nav of the new directory, then you don’t have admin rights. If you should & don’t, please ask your ward clerk to make sure the MLS lists you as the ward website admin using the Standard (not custom) MLS calling for that position.
You cannot import photos from the classic ward directory.
Admins can upload photos for individual members by editing their profile. Additionally, admins can use the bulk upload feature & do this for many photos at once … it allows you to assign the photos, once uploaded, to the members (individually, or for their household photo)
Hooray for “friendly” links to articles! I’ve used URL shorteners like bit.ly for years to shrink down links to LDS.org web pages. For example, Elder Hales’ October 1997 General Conference talk used to have this address:
http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=d67057b60090c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD
Now it’s a much (MUCH) better:
http://lds.org/ensign/1997/11/in-remembrance-of-jesus
My undying gratitude to you for reorganizing this!
There is a working link to a series of talks for the Military Relations section, but when using the search function it does not find this page. The page I am referring to is http://lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,4889-1,00.html
If you run a search for some of the text in this article, it doesn’t find this article.
digitallds,
This is an old series of talks that was built in a different architecture, so it isn’t included in the database that is searched. I’ll forward this message to the Military Relations office to see what their plans are.