Title: Redirection vs Paged redirections
Last modified: February 24, 2020

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# Redirection vs Paged redirections

 *  Resolved [Fanaticweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fanaticweb/)
 * (@fanaticweb)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-vs-paged-redirections/)
 * Here is the case scenario:
 * 1. I applied a redirect to a certain tag + tested redirection = OK
    2. This tag
   is attached to multiple posts generated in 3 pages across the website
 * I noticed in the 404s’ log that the same tag that I redirected is now flagged
   as 404 for Page 2 and most likely will do the same for Page 3
    /tag/tag-name/
   page/1
 * Shouldn’t the first Redirection that was done apply to the rest of the pagination?

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-vs-paged-redirections/#post-12471801)
 * No. A redirect is for the exact URL that you entered. If you want to match the
   paginated URLs then you will need to modify your redirect to also match them.
 *  Thread Starter [Fanaticweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fanaticweb/)
 * (@fanaticweb)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-vs-paged-redirections/#post-12478409)
 * Understood, I tried the following for a similar case (Expired post and attached
   images within that post)
 * ^https://www.website.com/category/expired-post-name/.*
    Chose Regex and Redirected
   to Homepage ([https://www.website.com](https://www.website.com)), the outcome
   worked perfectly.
 * But I couldn’t find the options for paginated redirects looking through [https://redirection.me/support/create-redirects/](https://redirection.me/support/create-redirects/)
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-vs-paged-redirections/#post-12478424)
 * That regular expression won’t work – it will match [https://www.website.com/https://www.website.com/category/expired-post-name/something](https://www.website.com/https://www.website.com/category/expired-post-name/something)–
   you shouldn’t include the domain.
 * There is no option for paginated redirects. This is something you will need to
   handle using the regular expression.
 *  Thread Starter [Fanaticweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fanaticweb/)
 * (@fanaticweb)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-vs-paged-redirections/#post-12478470)
 * Sorry you’re right, I did save it as ^/category/expired-post/.* omitting the 
   domain because it was suggested in the box, that’s working fine for that redirect.
 * How can I go by using the regular expression then for the paginated ones?
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-vs-paged-redirections/#post-12478908)
 * More details about regular expressions can be found here:
 * [https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/](https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/)
 * You will need to create your own expression.
 *  Thread Starter [Fanaticweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fanaticweb/)
 * (@fanaticweb)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-vs-paged-redirections/#post-12569541)
 * I finally figured it out thanks to your feedback and those 2 links:
 * [https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/](https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/)
 * **Final output was:**
    **Source:** ^/directory/old-name/(.*)
 * **Destination:** /directory/new-name/$1
 * This basically allowed the redirection of the old name to also include the pagination
   towards the new name.
 * Thank you John for pointing it out 🙂
 * Now, how to apply those changes to ALL previous redirects… wish I knew this in
   advance.
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by [Fanaticweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fanaticweb/).

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