Re-direct links on a WordPress site to a Showit site

In short, no. If the URL goes to the new site, then WP is out of the picture.

Ok so unless Showit can recreate the same folder structure with the links (unlikely) then the old links won’t work?

You might be able to use .htaccess on the new site to redirect old links to new ones, but that’s a showit question, not a wordpress one. Please contact their support.

The site above is a WordPress site and we have done a totally new version through Showit.

If you mean the service at showit.co this is just WordPress with custom paint over it. It’s even hosted on WPEngine!

So you’re merely moving from self-hosted WordPress site to a hosted or SaaS WordPress site, and I don’t see why anything should break if the migration is handled properly.

Oh, in that case, just use the plugin “redirection” on the new site to handle old URLs.

This is the latest from Showit:

i have heard back from my team! The htaccess file was depreciated a good while back and so is not supported, ?forwarding would need to be set up inside their domain registrar.

But – I don’t think you can redirect certain links in a registrar like GoDaddy, it’s the whole URL or nothing which is not what I want. As for the above – am I reading that Showit has a plug-in where I can re-direct the WordPress page to the new one in Showit?! But confused how that would work…

Sorry to clarify – the above paragraph is from Showit and the 2nd paragraph is me. It sounds like you are suggesting to use a plugin in Showit to re-direct the WordPress link structure to the new page on Showit, but I wasn’t sure that they did plugins? Will have to look again as this is something that we have not come across before.

Thanks for all your help!

This is clearly not a WordPress issue.

It’s a WordPress-related issue in the sense that I need to understand how I can make the existing WordPress site work with a new service like Showit which officially does integrate with WordPress – so the 2 are inter-twined and for some reason something that seems like someone should have had this issue before is hard to nail down a straight answer on, unfortunately.

I can make the existing WordPress site work with a new service like Showit which officially does integrate with WordPress

I thought you had “done a totally new version through Showit” and wanted to redirect old links? Now you want the “existing WordPress site to work with new service”?

Even if your old WordPress is still active, note that once you cut over the domain to the new host, your current WordPress site (and host) will be effectively disconnected from your domain, so any URL redirection can only be done at the new site/host, not the old host/site.

The htaccess file was depreciated a good while back and so is not supported, ?forwarding would need to be set up inside their domain registrar.

As I mentioned earlier, ShowIt.co uses WPEngine. It’s mentioned on their homepage and on their pricing page. Below is an official WPEngine support article on their decision to deprecate .httaccess on their platform (actually, they switched to Nginx) and alternatives they suggest to use to redirect links.

https://wpengine.com/support/htaccess-deprecation/

In the above article WPEngine suggests:

Fewer Than 1000 Redirects:

– Redirects can be added to WP Engine’s Nginx configuration
— Add redirects through the User Portal
— Bulk import redirects by contacting WP Engine Support
– Add redirects rules to the “Redirection” plugin
– Manage redirects in Yoast SEO Premium‘s redirect manager

(Note that WPEngine’s own advisory includes the same “Redirection” plugin that Steve mentioned earlier. I don’t know what sort of infrastructure access ShowIt.co gives their customers, so I can’t tell you what will work for you.)

Ok so (update). I have a premium account with Showit and we DO have the WP blog integrated and it will be at the same URL as the existing WordPress site. I can log into the integrated WordPress blog on her site with the same URL that we’ll use and I added in the re-direction plugin. So I’m optimistic. The only thing I’m wondering about in WordPress is:

Can it re-direct a WordPress link that is NOT part of the existing WordPress blog? For example, I can tell it to fwd a link from her current WordPress site to the corresponding showit page, but IF that link does not actually exist in the WP blog, then will it still fwd to the corresponding page on Showit? Said another way, does the link that is being re-directed in the WP Blog (connected to her Showit site) have to be an actual page on the actual WP blog? My hope is that as long as the base URL is the same, a string that I type in with the /folder/foler etc should just work. Thoughts?

“Can it re-direct a WordPress link that is NOT part of the existing WordPress blog?”

Can it? This is WordPress support, not Showit support. Please contact them.

EXCUSE ME, but asking if WORDPRESS will forward a link from a WORDPRESS site, IS a question for the WORDPRESS support forum.

OK, I took “it” to mean showit. Yes, use the redirection plugin in WordPress, as noted above.

Yeah so I have looked into it and the WordPress blog that is currently integrated into the showit site is WordPress and I was able to add the redirection plugin into that so I’m optimistic that it will work. I’m just not sure from a WordPress POV if when I put in an original link, does that page NEED to actually be created on the new integrated WordPress blog, or will it just take the link with the same initial URL and follow the string and fwd it? Does that make sense?