Deleting posts from site, want links to redirect to main page.

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  kafclown · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 6:36 pm

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  I am deleting some posts from my site, but don’t want to lose the traffic. How do I redirect them so that they go to either

  a) a category page of my choice (Ie, the deleted post was in category ‘problems’ it redirects to the category page ‘problems’ or
  b) just redirects to my homepage

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  timethief · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 6:38 pm

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  You cannot redirect any post that has been deleted. Delete it and it no longer exists.

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  kafclown · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 6:53 pm

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  Sure, but when somebody types in

  kafclown.wordpress.com/problems-with-my-life.html, and it no longer exists, I want that to go directly to kafclown.wordpress.com/problems or to my homepage, not to a 404.

  Is that possible?

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  kafclown · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 7:15 pm

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  Sorry, redoing this with links.

  Sure, but when somebody types in

  kafclown.wordpress.com/problems-with-my-life.html, and it no longer exists, I want that to go directly to kafclown.wordpress.com/problems or to my homepage, not to a 404. (which is what that made up site above goes to)

  Is that possible?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 7:19 pm

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  No. However, you can edit the post, remove the post content and type redirect to http://kafclown.wordpress.com/problems into the posts and save it.