Easy 301 redirect in Wordpress
OK, let me qualify this first by saying I am not an idiot and I do know how to do a redirect in my .htaccess file. However, something really weird happened on my server where I cannot see my .htaccess file through my ftp client (and yes, I have my client set to show hidden files), yet I know it exists because I am using permalink rewrites and I can see it through wordpress (under presentation). It is not writable so I have been looking for a different way to implement an easy 301 redirect from prestonwily.com to www.prestonwily.com.
Enter Greg Boser (aka WebGuerrilla) and a nice WordPress Redirection Plugin. It was simple to use and now I don’t have to worry about messing with my .htaccess file.
This is going to save me a bunch of headaches from Google treating my www and non-www sites differently. Thanks for the plugin, Greg.
Also, if you’re interested in this SEO stuff I highly recommend SEO Rockstars on WebmasterRadio.fm Greg and Todd Friesman (aka Oilman) are the hosts and last week even featured Google engineer Matt Cutts.
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So does that mean that people that don’t know how to do a redirect on .htaccess files are idiots?
Comment by Cameron — February 7, 2006 @ 11:26 pm
If you’ve been doing this as long as I have and can’t figure it out, yes, you are probably an idiot.
Comment by admin — February 8, 2006 @ 8:51 am