How do I handle 301 redirects
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Hi,
I have a Joomla site that I’m planning on moving to wordpress. I would like to use the business plan, $299. I would like to know how I can handle my 301 redirects?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi cappiello83,
I believe that you’ll need the Redirect upgrade. It doesn’t look like it’s included in the Business plan.
I’ll tag this thread for Staff assistance, so that they can clarify.
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The Site Redirect is only for sending traffic from a WordPress.COM blog to another site
It sounds like you want to do incoming redirects since your Joomla site probably has a different link structure, the Site Redirect will not do that for you. There is no upgrade that I am aware of that will do what you want to do.
If you want incoming redirects then you would need to install the WordPress.ORG software on you own host – then you can probably find a Plugin that would do the redirects for you. That would mean that you would not be hosted on WordPress.COM
For more on the difference: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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Hi there,
WordPress.com doesn’t support 301 redirects for individual pages. If your Joomla site uses a link structure similar to the WordPress.com link structure, the WordPress software will do its best to find the correct page — you can see some examples here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/coming-from-self-hosted/#a-note-on-permalinks
(Those examples were created for folks moving from WordPress.org to WordPress.com, but depending on your site’s link structure it may be useful for you.)
If you need more fine-tuned control over those redirects, though, I’d agree with auxclass — you’ll probably be better over with a self-hosted WordPress site using the software from WordPress.org.
Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)
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