Redirect is coming up with 'no content found'

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  johannaelsemore · Member · Nov 18, 2013 at 1:29 am

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  I recently paid to have my blog redirect, but it now says “content not found” when it goes to my new page. Can you please help me trouble shoot?

  Here is the initial url:

  http://johannaelsemore.com/2013/05/07/meet-the-juices-how-to-do-your-very-own-diy-blue-print-cleanse/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  amightywp · Member · Nov 19, 2013 at 9:12 pm

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  Hi there,

  The site redirect is intended for those of our users who have moved their sites to WordPress.org AND changed their domain name at the same time. So that means that you would need to have migrated your site from your WordPress.com site of johannaelsemore.com to notesfromamessykitchen.com (so that all of your articles are now in the exact same place on notesfromamessykitchen.com as they were at on johannaelsemore.com). You definitely fulfill those requirements, but the settings on your site are a little off which is causing some problems.

  On notesfromamessykitchen.com, you have set your blog to not have the dates included in your URL pattern. So the article you mentioned is at:

  http://www.notesfromamessykitchen.com/meet-the-juices-how-to-do-your-very-own-diy-blue-print-cleanse/

  Rather than at the URL it’s trying to find:

  http://www.notesfromamessykitchen.com/2013/05/07/meet-the-juices-how-to-do-your-very-own-diy-blue-print-cleanse/

  Sadly the redirect doesn’t really work in such a way as to remove those dates for you. As such, you have two choices:

  1) You can modify your new blog to include the dates of the blog entries.

  2) You can cancel and get a refund for your site redirect.

  It is entirely up to you!

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  johannaelsemore · Member · Nov 20, 2013 at 2:23 pm

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  Thanks so much, that makes sense. Do you know how to modify the URLs to include the dates on the wordpress.org publishing platform so that it will be applied retroactively?

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  amightywp · Member · Nov 20, 2013 at 3:31 pm

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  Yep! There is actually an entire help article under the WordPress.org Codex which will help you with that. You can find it right here:

  http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

  Let me know if you have any other questions.

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  johannaelsemore · Member · Nov 20, 2013 at 3:38 pm

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  Thank you, thank you! Looks like everything is working perfectly now.

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  amightywp · Member · Nov 20, 2013 at 4:52 pm

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  Excellent! I’m so glad that it’s working for you.

  I hope you have a great rest of your week!