Comments on: Redirection Plugin and Regexes

By: Austin

Austin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:24:18 +0000

Hi Geoff,

Yes, this is possible. Try something like this:

Source URL: *
Target URL: http://newdomain.com/

To get this to work, though, you will need to have two totally separate sets of WordPress files. The old one will have to be running the redirection plugin with the above redirection and the new one will be totally independent from that. I’m pretty sure that WordPress handles things like this on its own. What happens when you access a post via the old domain?

Hopefully this helps. Sorry about the delay, have been neglecting my blog somewhat.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:54:38 +0000

Is it possible to use Redirection to update an entire domain? I had a blog at initialdomain.com – now I’ve switched it to secondomain.com. The old domain is still pointing to the seconddomain but when the visits come in I want them to be redirected so eventually everything is 301ed and seconddomain.com is what shows up in all of the search engines. Basically, I just migrated the blog from one domain to another.

By: Austin

Austin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:39:02 +0000

Hi there,

Glad that you could get things fixed!

By: cybearDJM

cybearDJM — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:01:44 +0000

OK, just found 2 things I did wrong:
* escape the question mark => \?
* order regex expressions in the dashboard from the most specific to the less one.
Pb solved!
Sincerely
DJM

By: cybearDJM

cybearDJM — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:03:01 +0000

Testing further, same pb with
/Index.php?p=(.*) => /?p=$1

Nothing happens… ??? :(

By: cybearDJM

cybearDJM — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:51:03 +0000

Hi, thanks for your post & help here.
I changed the organization of my blog and am testing the plugin, with great results so far…
e.g. this works fine: /(\d*)/(\d*)/(.*) => $3
But i can’t have this 2nd one to work.
/Index.php?tag=(.*) => /tag/$1 (e.g. bad that should be redirected to correct )
It’s not that the expression gives strange or bad results, it’s not fired at all… did I forget something? the regex checkbox is checked…
Nothing happens, and I’m wondering why…

sincerely
DJM

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:54:22 +0000

Austin, thanks for the tutorial. I am having a heck of a time trying to figure his one out, maybe you can help. I am trying to use the plugin to redirect a bunch of old user account urls to /

/~USERNAME

Many have subdirectories under that one:

/~USERNAME/SUB/SUB

I have tried using the regex functionality. The tilda seems to cause some escaping in the plugin, so I tried escaping them…with no luck. My last attempt was:

/\~[a-zA-Z].*

but, no love.

Thanks,

Jason

By: Austin

Austin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:59:50 +0000

Hi Greg,

Try this: [a-z-]

By: Austin

Austin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:59:29 +0000

Hi Jane,

Try this:

Source URL: /admin/publish?id=(.*)
Target URL: /?p=$1

Source URL: /admin/publish?slug=(.*)
Target URL: /$1

By: Greg Turner

Greg Turner — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:40:08 +0000

Thank you for this post. Question about reg exp. I am using ([a-z]*) as part of my reg expression. How do I change it so that a hyphen is also matched; in other words, how do I tell it to match any characters that are a hyphen or between a and z. Thanks