Permanently redirect WP Pages to another domain

  • Resolved msmeritt

    (@msmeritt)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    I have lots of redirect commands in my domain’s root level .htaccess file, and they’ve always worked fine. They’ve always taken the form, up until now, of redirecting an old non-WP static HTML page or non-WP static actual folder to the new WP post/page I wanted to map them to.

    I had a few pages on one WP-drive site of mine, and I’ve just created a whole new WP-driven site at another domain to replace and add to them. I deleted the Pages at the original WP installation, and I added 301 redirects for them to that original installation’s root-level .htaccess. However, they are not redirecting — WP seems to take over and try to find them and, since the pages are now deleted, of course I’m getting file not found errors.

    Is there a way to allow these actual redirects to take effect as the priority and not have WP step in the way of their working?

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  • Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    See if you can find the redirectify plugin. Assuming I understand what you’re after, I believe it would work for you.

    Thread Starter msmeritt

    (@msmeritt)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Huh. I’d seen this plug-in and I didn’t think it would do what I wanted — I thought somehow that it would only redirect w/i a WP installation, didn’t realize at first you could enter any full URL you wanted. So I tried it out, and it certainly does seem to do the trick.

    Wish I’d have known about this plug-in before I originally deleted the pages I wanted to redirect! I had to recreate the pages/slugs in order to use the plug-in with those original URLs. Hope that won’t have any adverse affect on my search engine rankings or any other functionality.

    Only thing better would be if the plug-in had the ability to specify for each page/post exactly which 300 code to use, i.e., to be able to specify different kinds of redirects, including permanent ones.

    In any case, problem seems to be solved for now. Thanks for the help!

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