WP HELP NEEDED: Auto 301 redirecting deleted posts?
Does anyone know of a Wordpress plugin that will automatically set up a 301 redirect (to point to the homepage, for instance) for any post that is deleted?
I have a site which has a lot of syndicated content (as well as a lot of original content, of course), but I'm overhauling it and intend on deleting a lot of these posts in favour of new, 100% unique, original content. However, I'd like to retain the backlinks these soon-to-be-deleted posts received, and channel them (along with any "link-juice" / PageRank) to the homepage.
I'm aware of the "Redirection" Wordpress plugin, but this only sets up 301 redirects for posts whose URLs/permalinks have changed - not those that have been deleted. I know I could manually set up these redirects as I delete the posts, but with hundreds (if not thousands) of them, that'd be a bit of a headache.
Does anyone have any advice or tips/tricks they'd use in this case?
(And for the record, I cannot redirect whole categories or anything like that, since my site's permalink structure doesn't use category names in the URLs - and there are some unique, original posts among them, which I want to leave alone.)
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The 2nd Amendment, 1789 - The Original Homeland Security.
Gun control means never having to say, "I missed you."