URL redirect from Weebly to WordPress

  • Resolved kgilkey

    (@kgilkey)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hello! I am needing assistance or tips on how to URL redirect from my old Weebly blog (enticinghealthyeating.weebly.com) to my new wordpress site (enticinghealthyeating.com).

    I successfully managed to transfer over all the content I needed over to my new site, and now I am simply wanting to URL redirect all of my weebly pages to my new wordpress site.

    For clarification, I was using a free Weebly site for my old blog. Finally took the leap to purchase my own domain, which I should have done a long time ago. I don’t want to lose my SEO I’ve built up over the past couple of years so I would LOVE to know how to successfully URL redirect from old Weebly blog to new WordPress site.

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  • Unless Weebly offers URL redirection from their servers, you’re out of luck. You need to be able to redirect from enticinghealthyeating.weebly.com but you can’t host ‘weebly.com’ yourself to add a redirect from a subdomain.

    Best thing you could do is possibly add an html redirection meta tag from your old home page at enticinghealthyeating.weebly.com to enticinghealthyeating.com, i.e.

    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https://www.yournewsitedomain.com/">

    if Weebly allows you to add meta tags. If not, Javascript in the body of the page, if Weebly allows that.

    You could also use javascript to redirect whatever the current page is on weebly to the same page new website. This is not as good as a 301 redirect, but I wasn’t able to find a free or paid option in Weebly to 301 redirect to an external site.

    If you want to try the javascript option, you could put code like this in the Settings > SEO > Header Code setting:

    <script>
window.location = "https://new-website.com/" + window.location.pathname;
</script>

    Make sure to replace new-website.com with your own website URL.

    Thread Starter kgilkey

    (@kgilkey)

    Scott, your suggestions and our emails helped immensely! Thank you!

    everythingslookingrosie

    (@everythingslookingrosie)

    Hi Guys! So I need your help!

    I’m trying to do the exact same thing, to redirect all of my traffic from my old website my new one.

    My old website is everythingslookingrosie.weebly.com and my new one is everythingslookingrosie.wordpress.com

    Any suggestions?

    Thank you!x

    @everythingslookingrosie: You’re using wordpress.com and in the wrong place; these forums are for self-hosted .org WordPress sites. You need to go to the WordPress.com Forums.

    Hi there,

    Wondering if there is a work-around to get Scott’s Javascript suggestion working when the pages are differently named?

    For example, the script works when I redirect my old site’s homepage plus.timeraiser.ca to my new site’s homepage at weareframework.org. But when I try to redirect a subpage, i.e. https://plus.timeraiser.ca/website-audits.html to https://weareframework.org/techraiser/our-work/website-audits/, it returns a 404 error at https://weareframework.org/techraiser/our-work/website-audits/website-audits.html

    Can the script be modified so that the old page name is not appended to the new one?

    I plan to do a 301 redirect at the server level (since the domain is not registered through Weebly) at a later date, but wanted to ensure that people can find the relevant sub-pages until then. Any advice or suggestions on how to best manage this redirect is greatly appreciated.

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