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Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion: How to send 1000 people to a 404 error page

  • Dawud Miracle · 2 years ago
    I did something similar when I pulled down a post after a couple of hours because I thought it really sucked. I wrote it when I was tired. I got Google hits for a couple of weeks after that. Though my traffic was less.
  • Dawud Miracle · 2 years ago
    I did something similar when I pulled down a post after a couple of hours because I thought it really sucked. I wrote it when I was tired. I got Google hits for a couple of weeks after that. Though my traffic was less.
  • Lorelle · 2 years ago
    You aren't alone. I've done this...let's just say "before" and not how many times. ;-) Good for you for catching it so soon.

    One thing I HATE is when I make a mizzed spelling in the title and post slug. I can fix it easily in the title, but the post slug, well, after it's been linked to by a few hundred folks, it's hard to change that, but redirect definitely helps. Wish I could do that on WordPress.com blogs.
  • Lorelle · 2 years ago
    You aren't alone. I've done this...let's just say "before" and not how many times. ;-) Good for you for catching it so soon.

    One thing I HATE is when I make a mizzed spelling in the title and post slug. I can fix it easily in the title, but the post slug, well, after it's been linked to by a few hundred folks, it's hard to change that, but redirect definitely helps. Wish I could do that on WordPress.com blogs.
  • AndyBeard · 2 years ago
    Well I just got hit by it again.

    It seems Wordpress has a nasty habit of overwriting its own .htaccess file even if you don't make changes to any plugins
  • AndyBeard · 2 years ago
    Well I just got hit by it again.

    It seems Wordpress has a nasty habit of overwriting its own .htaccess file even if you don't make changes to any plugins
  • Manu Khanna · 2 years ago
    H Andy, a couple of months ago I moved my blog from "manukhanna.com/blog" to "manukhanna.com". I want to redirect all pages in the /blog folder to the blog home page (manukhanna.com). Currently I have the following in my htaccess:

    [code]RedirectPermanent ^/blog/$1 http://manukhanna.com/index.php[/code]

    This isn't solving the purpose. Would be great if you could help me out.

    thanks.
  • AndyBeard · 2 years ago
    I am not great with htaccess stuff, but it is my understading that this plugin with the old permalinks option enabled can help you out

    http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/
  • Manu Khanna · 2 years ago
    H Andy, a couple of months ago I moved my blog from "manukhanna.com/blog" to "manukhanna.com". I want to redirect all pages in the /blog folder to the blog home page (manukhanna.com). Currently I have the following in my htaccess:

    [code]RedirectPermanent ^/blog/$1 http://manukhanna.com/index.php[/code]

    This isn't solving the purpose. Would be great if you could help me out.

    thanks.
  • AndyBeard · 2 years ago
    I am not great with htaccess stuff, but it is my understading that this plugin with the old permalinks option enabled can help you out

    http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/