That’s true, it does happen to me as well and I think is a bug.
There is a fix on Forums but I think is out dated as the code of the plugin has changed since the fix has been posted.
Yeah, any of the posts that I found with a solution weren’t helpful. We edited models/redirect.php so that it wouldn’t create a redirect for URL: / no matter what. That fixed our issue for now, but hopefully the author of the plugin will release an update soon with a permanent fix.
t8shter could you post the fixed code here please I am having the same issue as well Your fix would be greatly appreciated.
I don’t remember what the original file looked like, but if you open wp-content/plugins/redirection/redirect.php and go down to around line 198 or so, you will see a Red_Item::sanitize line … we added that to the $url variable and put in the if below that … hope this helps a little.
$url = Red_Item::sanitize_url( $details['source'], $regex);
// preg_match check added to prevent / from being redirected.
if ( $group_id > 0 && $matcher && !preg_match('/^\/$/', $url) ) {
$regex = ( isset( $details['regex']) && $details['regex'] != false) ? true : false;
$position = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT COUNT(id) FROM {$wpdb->prefix}redirection_items WHERE group_id=%d", $group_id ) );
$action = $details['red_action'];
$action_code = 0;
if ( $action == 'url' || $action == 'random' )
$action_code = 301;
elseif ( $action == 'error' )
$action_code = 404;
if ( isset( $details['action_code'] ) )
$action_code = intval( $details['action_code'] );
$data = array(
'url' => $url,
'action_type' => $details['red_action'],
'regex' => $regex,
'position' => $position,
'match_type' => $details['match'],
'action_data' => $matcher->data( $details ),
'action_code' => $action_code,
'last_access' => 0,
'group_id' => $group_id
);
$wpdb->insert( $wpdb->prefix.'redirection_items', $data );
sorry, that was the wrong file!
wp-content/plugins/redirection/models/redirect.php
Thanks for the tips guys.
I was having this problem today, all the new blog posts were automaticallly creating a redirect from /blog/ to the post. SO, the homepage couldn’t be viewed.
Using T8shter’s tip, this is what I did for a plugin hack (look for ‘I ADDED THIS’):
function create( $details ) {
global $wpdb;
// Auto generate URLs
if ( $details['source'] == '' )
$details['source'] = Red_Item::auto_generate();
if ( $details['target'] == '' )
$details['target'] = Red_Item::auto_generate();
// Make sure we don't redirect to ourself
if ( $details['source'] == $details['target'] )
$details['target'] .= '-1';
$matcher = Red_Match::create( $details['match'] );
$group_id = intval( $details['group'] );
if ( $group_id > 0 && $matcher ) {
$regex = ( isset( $details['regex']) && $details['regex'] != false) ? true : false;
$position = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT COUNT(id) FROM {$wpdb->prefix}redirection_items WHERE group_id=%d", $group_id ) );
$action = $details['red_action'];
$action_code = 0;
if ( $action == 'url' || $action == 'random' )
$action_code = 301;
elseif ( $action == 'error' )
$action_code = 404;
if ( isset( $details['action_code'] ) )
$action_code = intval( $details['action_code'] );
$data = array(
'url' => Red_Item::sanitize_url( $details['source'], $regex),
'action_type' => $details['red_action'],
'regex' => $regex,
'position' => $position,
'match_type' => $details['match'],
'action_data' => $matcher->data( $details ),
'action_code' => $action_code,
'last_access' => 0,
'group_id' => $group_id
);
if (!in_array(strtolower($data['url']), array('/','/blog/'))) # I ADDED THIS LINE
$wpdb->insert( $wpdb->prefix.'redirection_items', $data );
$group = Red_Group::get( $group_id );
Red_Module::flush( $group->module_id );
return Red_Item::get_by_id( $wpdb->insert_id );
}
return false;
}
I’ve had this problem for a couple weeks too. Adding the one line as per gavinengel’s hack seems to have fixed it. I hope the plugin author updates this soon…
I hope in a fix soon!
This is a problem for me too 🙁
Has anyone heard from the developer on this problem?
I have noticed it happened when you start writing something new without entering a new title first.
