Redirect/forward urls to a particular page or post within WordPress (eg a legacy URL)
| Author: | OllyBenson (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.2.1 |
| Plugin version: | 1.3 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 26-04-2011 |
| Last updated: | 20-11-2011
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Plugin URI: | http://code.olib.co.uk/redirect |
| Total downloads: | 3 160 |
| Active installs: | 100+ |
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The plugin redirects legacy URLs a previous version of a websites that has since been converted into a WordPress site. It can also be used for other redirecting, eg having a short URL that directs to a page as part of a campaign.
For example:
http://www.example.com/old-page.html
Can be directed to:
http://www.example.com/2011/04/25/new-page.html
Simply by adding 'old-page.html' as a custom field when editing new-page within WordPress.
Every time a 404 page is called, the Legacy URL plugin checks the database and if it find a legacy-url value that exactly matches the URL it will redirect to the new page.
Please note that this plugin has no settings/options pages within the WordPress admin module.