Is this plugin supposed to add urls to the 410 list when deleted from wordpress?

I wanted to use this plugin but I found something better. Add this in the .htaccess file of your website:

# BEGIN 410
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* – [G,L]
# END WordPress

This code will do the same thing as this plugin, but you’ll be sure it works because I use it for my website. He tells Google that the page he’s looking for no longer exists.

Yes, it should add deleted posts to the 410 list but will only do so if nothing else matches the same URL, which is my best guess for why it didn’t for you. In such cases you can add it manually.

@mjoly2000 is correct that doing it in htaccess is much more efficient, if you are able to.

@mjoly2000 @solarissmoke That .htaccess code you posted, should we enter that as is in the .htaccess file?
And if so, does that mean that any post that was deleted will go 410 instead of 404?

Thanks

I wrote this code as I wrote it and now, in Search Console, I do not have any code 404. So it should work for you. You embed it wherever you want in the .htaccess file.

Martin

Thanks for the response, it didn’t work for me but i went with an alternative and all good.

Btw, in case anyone else tried that code above. Be careful as it made all of our valid posts as 410.

Hi there,

Not for me. All my posts are indexed correctly by Google.

The plugin doesn’t work with url structure in Cyrillic language. The reported by the plugin 404 urls, suggested to add to obsolete list, contain only /?????? ????.