301 Page Redirect

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  raydrive01 · Member · Sep 26, 2014 at 7:55 pm

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  I have a simple problem, yet I cannot find an easy solution.

  We have a blog post with the URL http://myurl.wordpress.com/2014/9/26/post-url/

  Unfortunately, we sent out information using both that URL and the URL with the date listed as 9/25. So in essence, I simply want to forward the 9/25 URL to the actual post URL from 9/26.

  All we need to do is forward one complete URL to the other so all users who click either link go to the same page.

  How can I do this??

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  honeysilvas · Member · Sep 27, 2014 at 1:32 pm

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  Hi,

  I think the best thing you can do is:

  – Create a post and date it 9/25 so it’s website address would be http://myurl.wordpress.com/2014/9/25/post-url/

  – Write on that post saying this post has moved and include a link to the new post.

  Example: “This content has moved to http://myurl.wordpress.com/2014/9/26/post-url/”

  This way, people who are directed to http://myurl.wordpress.com/2014/9/25/post-url/ have a link to go http://myurl.wordpress.com/2014/9/26/post-url/ easily.

  Hope that helps!

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  raydrive01 · Member · Sep 27, 2014 at 2:40 pm

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  Thanks, I actually thought about creating a duplicate post under the 9/25 date and seeing if there was a way to hide that post from the home page blog feed. Sort of like an “unlisted” post where users could get to it by accessing the URL directly, but it’s not linked anywhere else on the site.

  However it looks like the only options for the post are “private” (for logged-in users) and “password protected”, both of which aren’t ideal options.

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  honeysilvas · Member · Sep 27, 2014 at 6:54 pm

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  You’re welcome.

  Unfortunately, there isn’t really an elegant way of handling this where there won’t be a duplicated post on the home page.