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Looking for Automatic 301 Plugin for WordPress

by pokerdawg
7 replies
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Has anyone seen or used an automatic 301 Plugin (redirect) for WordPress?

I've found several plugins, but they require you to define the missing page and set up a redirect.

What I want is this - if someone goes to a non-existing page, instead of getting a 404 error (and a 404 in the header sent back to the browser) I instead want it to send a 301 to a specific page (if that 404 page was configured and mapped) OR send to the home page with a 301 if that specific page was not mapped.

The idea is that there will never be a 404 error on the site and if there is a missing page we treat it as a 301 to the home page.

Has anyone seen this?

Thanks!
#301 #automatic #plugin #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author DeskCoder
    Put the redirect at the top of your 404.php file in your theme.

    <?
    Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
    Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" );
    ?>
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    • Profile picture of the author Talen
      There is a wordpress plugin called link juice keeper that does exactly what you want.
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    • Profile picture of the author M_Usman
      Originally Posted by DeskCoder View Post

      Put the redirect at the top of your 404.php file in your theme.

      <?
      Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
      Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" );
      ?>
      Dose this code works automatically for all 404 or I need to set each URL settings?
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        I never send people to the index page. There's no
        explanation, and it's a bad user experience.

        Make a custom 404 error page for a what is called
        a soft landing.


        Normally urls that are no longer there via some
        nonsense from WP, will never show up in google
        searches by real people doing real searches.

        A 301 should be used as it was intended, not
        for a bunch of urls that don't really exist, and
        get created ad nauseum.

        Everybody should have a custom 404 error page.

        I'm not sure , but I think the 404 error is
        still logged no matter even if you use some code.

        Besides, you still want the visitor to know what happened.

        Paul
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        If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I do what DeskCoder does above with some of my sites 404.php pages.

    Here is the Wordpress 404/301 redirect code I use.


    This will redirect 100% of all broken links back to the Wordpress blogs Index page.

    The code above is the only code inside my 404.php file.

    [edit]
    The forum keeps breaking my php code, that's the reason for the code/screenshot.
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  • Profile picture of the author DeskCoder
    I didn't think about the status code ... but I just checked in Firebug (NET panel), and there is no 404, just a 301 if you add the php redirect to the top of the 404.php page.
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