Making it easy to redirect without regex | WordPress.org

MichaelApproved
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11 years, 1 month ago
Regex is a very complicated syntax to manage for even the best programmers and it’s impossible for regular administrative users. 100% of the cases for regex (for our staff) come from 3 needs:
1. Dealing with query strings, such as http://example.com/my-path?field=value
2. Dealing with trailing slashes, such as http://example.com/my-path/
3. Dealing with capital letters, such as http://example.com/MY-path
If we want to match the following URLs
http://example.com/my-path
http://example.com/my-path?field=value
http://example.com/my-path/
http://example.com/my-path/?field=value

We’d need 2 complicated regex: ^/my-path/?\? and ^/podcast/?$

Would it be possible to have 3 advanced checkboxes for creating a redirect?
1. Ignore query variables
2. Ignore trailing forward slashes
3. Ignore case
If we had those 3 options, for our staff, regex would be a thing of the past. I’m guessing that most others would greatly benefit from this as well.

Thanks so much for making and supporting this plugin!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

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Thread Starter MichaelApproved
(@michaelapproved)

11 years, 1 month ago
As a quick fix, I can filter the URL and remove the query, trailing slash, making it all lowercase and tweak it any other way I need.

Would you be able to include a filter for the URL in the WordPress init function?
```
public function init() {
	$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

//////
////// This is a new filter that I'm proposing
//////
	$url = apply_filters( 'redirection_url', $url );

	// Make sure we don't try and redirect something essential
	if ( !$this->protected_url( $url ) && $this->matched === false ) {
		do_action( 'redirection_first', $url, $this );

		$redirects = Red_Item::get_for_url( $url, 'wp' );

		foreach ( (array)$redirects AS $item ) {
			if ( $item->matches( $url ) ) {
				$this->matched = $item;
				break;
			}
		}

		do_action( 'redirection_last', $url, $this );
	}
}
```
Thread Starter MichaelApproved
(@michaelapproved)

11 years, 1 month ago

To be clear, I’d filter $url to remove the query values, so I’d never have to worry about that breaking my redirects and leave out regex. This saves the effort of creating a UI.

I could also set the url to be all lowercase, so it’s case insensitive.

Filtering the $url would be really powerful for customizations.

Thread Starter MichaelApproved
(@michaelapproved)

11 years, 1 month ago

I created a pull request on the github repo with this change https://github.com/johngodley/redirection/pull/56

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