Redirect on page url change

  • Unknown's avatar
    mortoray · Member ·

    If I change the “Parent” of a page, or it’s URL slug, it appears that an 301 redirect is automatically created for the old address. This feature however doesn’t appear documented.

    I would like if this feature was documented to work, so I can feel better about relying on it.

    It would also be nice if I could add redirect URLs for a page manually. In some cases I may wish to consolidate a page, or already have a new page. Or in some cases I may have just published the wrong URL and want to explicitly redirect the broken one to the right place.

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

  • Unknown's avatar
    dave2swords · Member ·

    Hi
    Great question! I do not have an answer, but i am flagging this for Staff to take a look at

    dave

  • Unknown's avatar
    gemmacevans · Member ·

    Hi mortoray,

    When you update the parent page or URL slug of a post/page, we automatically redirect the old URL to the new one.

    It would also be nice if I could add redirect URLs for a page manually.

    Manual redirects for posts and pages aren’t a supported feature on WordPress.com, only the changes I mentioned above :)

  • Unknown's avatar
    mortoray · Member ·

    This feature doesn’t appear to always work. I was trying to get some redirects but they aren’t working.

    For example, I previously had a /cloverleaf/ page with text and a link to /leaf/. I deleted cloverleaf and instead renamed leaf->cloverleaf->leaf. But then going to /cloverleaf/ brought me to https://mortoray.com/2012/07/07/cloverleaf-start-with-an-expression-parser/ instead!

    I also tried with dupesychristmas -> dupseychristmas -> dupesychristmas to fix a typo, but the incorrectly spelled dupsetchristmas got a 404 error after doing this. I had to go back to manually creating the incorrect URL and sticking in a redirect.

    It’d be extrmeley benefciial to see what redirects a page has associated with it and to add new ones.

  • The topic ‘Redirect on page url change’ is closed to new replies.