Paul Jacobson

Best plugin for URL redirects in WordPress?

I’d like to redirect urls in a WordPress site and I could use recommendations for good plugins or methods of doing this effectively and cleanly. What I’d like to do is redirect something like:

http://acmesite.com/pathA/page.html

to:

http://acmesite.com/pathB/page.html

What I want to do is change a top level menu item on the site without breaking all the links to the underlying pages. I can change the links I am aware of but I’d like to ensure that legacy links still resolve to the correct page on the new URL path.

Any suggestions how best to do this?

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  1. Nathan Jeffery avatar
    Nathan Jeffery

    These two plugins look like they might be able to do the trick, I haven’t personally tried them though.

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

    https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/permalink-redirect/

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    1. Paul avatar
      Paul

      I knew about the Redirection one. It looked a bit neglected. The other one looks interesting, if anything because its a Yoast plugin.

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  2. Allan avatar
    Allan

    Try this:

    RedirectMatch 301 /pathA(.*) /pathB/$1

    Or

    RewriteRule ^pathA/(.*)$ /pathB/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

    If you’re using Worrpress the .htaccess file should already exist.

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    1. Paul avatar
      Paul

      Thanks Allan. Will the rewrite option actually modify the urls or effect a redirect?

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