Redirect hundreds old pages to just only new one page

Hi s.r.,

Not sure if this helps, but here’s the Redirection plugin documentation page with a few examples:

https://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/

If you do find the solution, please could you post it? I’m going to have a play when I have a bit of time. I’m sure it would be useful.

Cheers,

Zain

ZainB that’s actually the plugin I am using, and we are talking now in the plugin’s support forum ??

The plugin is indeed useful! I like it. You can redirect there pretty much whatever you want.
However for those, like me, who doesn’t understand REgExes some scenarios a bit difficult.

For time being I end up using global regex post.php(.*)
It’s not what wanted and I needed but at least I don’t get dozens of 404 erros..

Hi s.r.

I’m not a regex wiz (I just know a little bit). Here’s what I came up with which seems to work. I hope it may help someone out (or even me in future!).

*Note: Remember to make sure that the Regex checkbox is ticked.

Source:
/post.php\?lg=eng&id=(\d+)

Target:
/courses/

Note the use of the parentheses (\d+). The \? helps to escape the question mark, as it’s a special character.

This will replace:

/post.php?lg=eng&id=35
/post.php?lg=eng&id=36
/post.php?lg=eng&id=45

and point them ALL to the /courses/ page.

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Alternate Useful Regex
How to redirect your URLs to a string, followed by an ID.

Source:
/post.php\?lg=eng&id=[\d+]

(Note the use of the brackets at the end [\d+] )

Target:
/courses/

This will replace:

/post.php?lg=eng&id=35
/post.php?lg=eng&id=36
/post.php?lg=eng&id=45

and point them to:
/courses/35/
/courses/36/
/courses/45/

I hope that helps. If anyone else can add anything, or suggest a better way, that would be great.

Cheers,

Zain