MMDeveloper

I found a bug. Sometimes it tries to redirect to an image.

I realise it didn’t redirect, thats because the code assumed it was a page or post, but I never saw that the code does sometimes try to redirect to an image.

I’ve come up with a solution so instead of redirecting to an image it redirects to the post or page. It seems to be fixed with version 1.6.2. Please give it a go.

I tried to navigate to:

https://www.marketingmix.com.au/service-suite2/vivd-technology/

and it didn’t work for me. When I fixed the issue using version 1.6.2 it redirected to this page, which is correct:

https://www.marketingmix.com.au/service-suite/vivd-technology/

This the page a post or a page?

I’ve tried it on my own website, and there was no issue with the redirection.

There could potentially be a problem if you change the permalink pattern, I haven’t been able to fix that issue yet.

I hope this helps. I navigated to this url:

https://www.narniafans.com/tumnus-bookshelf-the-narniafans-book-reviews-the-christian-world-of-the-hobbit/

I got taken to this url:

https://www.narniafans.com/archives/13226

When I looked at the view source by right clicking and clicking on view source I read the title and the title was:

“Tumnus’ Bookshelf: The NarniaFans Book Reviews: “The Christian World of The Hobbit” | Narnia Fans”

Looks like the title is working correctly.

Its possible that you have a cache problem.

This plugin saves the old url of posts as well. So if you have a post url, change its slug name and navigate to the old post url, it will redirect you to the current post url.

Looking at the code I can’t see how my plugin would affect your title. Theres no code that affects the title. All my code does is keep a record of urls and when a 404 happens look at the past urls, find its page id and then redirect them to the right page.

Its possible to have a blank title if two pages had the same url at different times, one with a title and one without and the system can’t tell the difference between them, which you can manage with my gui controls and if a page was deleted. I think the way it is, is great cos you have the history as best as you can get it. Theres no way to stop two urls being the same at different times. Not sure if I should delete the old urls if the current page is deleted. If the system tried to redirect the user to the old url, the worse thing that will happen, is that they get a 404 which they would have gotten anyways.

To test it, find the page and change its slug name, then update the post. In a new browser navigate to the pages previous url/slug name and you should find that it will redirect you to the updated url.

If you download 1.2, you can see a list of old urls pointing to the new ones.

Hi Paul,

Yes you are correct, my plugin remembers the old urls and redirects them to the new ones. So if you have a page called website.com/archives/19202 and changed it to website.com/article-title it will still work with google and bookmark cos if a user goes to website.com/archives/19202 it will redirect them to website.com/article-title.