Redirect rules for one language site

Hello @vahan80, feedback below:

The question is can I keep en url part in one language website with or without WPML

With WPML, you can enable the “languages in directories” mode in the URL settings. So your site will still have the website.com/en directory

Will this plugin provide the redirect rules for .htaccess in cleanup process when not using WPML.

Not sure if I understood correctly. This is what we have about this in our documentation:

During the import process, the plugin generates a set of URL redirect rules. These rules tell visitors and search engines that the URLs in your site have changed (from qTranslate’s format to WPML’s format). When the import completes, you’ll be able to export these rules either as rewrite directives for your .htaccess file or as a PHP file to add to the theme.

You can skip the redirect rules, but then, incoming links to internal pages may lead to 404 pages.

I recommend creating a backup (you can use the Updraft plugin) and test to see if it achieves the expected result. If it doesn’t work, you can reverse the backup.

Please let us know if it works.

Hi, @diegootgs

Thank you for fast response.

The question really is: if I don’t use WPML, but I use qTranslate X Cleanup and WPML Import and reduced my site languages to only english. How can I be sure the urls from Google with /en/ will remain working on my site, does this plugin generate redirect rules? Or how can I make it still open with mysite.com/en/.

Thank you!

Hello @vahan80,

As you will not be using WPML, I believe all URLs will be directed to your website’s default URL (yourwebsite.com) and not to a sub-directory (e.g. yourwebsite.com/en)

So in this case, if you want to keep the /en/ directory, you would have to configure the subdirectory/redirects manually.

Thank you!