Url Redirection plugin for wordpress
Did you decided to use wordpress as a CMS for your website? Do you have an old website, that has a good amount of links indexed and you want to switch it wordpress so you can mentain it easily? If the answer YES to at least one of those questions, than this article here is the right place for you to read.
You’ll find out how to easily help search engines to find links that changed, and more than that, replace old URLs with the new ones.
Of course you know about HTTP response codes. That’s the key here. When an URL changes, it’ll return 404 obviously. There is a way though to tell search engines that URL X can now be found at Y location. that’s what 301 status stands for (Moved Permanent). Now how do we do that?
Htaccess redirect old url to new one with a 301 code
Yes that’s a solution but that’s for advanced users, the ones that know a bit about url rewriting and such. We do not intend to talk about that in here ( If you wanna read more about that , just go into the appropriate section or use the advanced search to look for).
What we intend to do here is provide a way of doing such redirects in an extremely easy way for wordpress users. The solution comes off course with a plugin. That can be downloaded here.
Some of the features of this cool plugin are:
- 404 error monitoring - captures a log of 404 errors and allows you to easily map these to 301 redirects
- Custom ‘pass-through’ redirections allowing you to pass a URL through to another page, file, or website.
- Full logs for all redirected URLs
- All URLs can be redirected, not just ones that don’t exist
- Redirection methods - redirect based upon login status, redirect to random pages, redirect based upon the referrer!
- WordPress 2.1+ only
- Automatically add a 301 redirection when a post’s URL changes
- Manually add 301, 302, and 307 redirections for a WordPress post, or for any other file
- Full regular expression support
- Apache .htaccess is not required - works entirely inside WordPress
- Strip or add www to all your WordPress pages
- Redirect index.php, index.html, and index.htm access
- Redirection statistics telling you how many times a redirection has occurred, when it last happened, who tried to do it, and where they found your URL
- Fully localized
2 Comments for “Url Redirection plugin for wordpress”
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June 26th, 2008 at 10:37 am
I Can’t seem to locate the download link. Is it removed or what?
June 26th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Probably was stripped by mistake.Anyways here it is. http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/ Enjoy