Redirect Wordpress Blogs Using Redirectr

Changing domains without loosing subscriber base is a tough task, and if you are novice and have little programming skills it can be even tougher.If you started out blog using the WordPress Blogging platform and now wanted to change to a TLD (Top Level Domain) for example www.abc.com to www.abc.com/blog or vice versa you now redirect your to the new domain right easily using Rediectr Theme on your old blog.

The Redirectr Theme is less of a theme and more of a plugin which does the job of redirecting the traffic from an existing (old) blog to a new blog or site by passing the correct HTML header codes and optionally appending the passed permalink and query strings to the new site.

The same can be done by using .htaccess file instead, but in some cases like WordPress MU sites or not knowing how to add the code in the .htaccess file or incorrect code in htaccess file can cause lot of traffic problems in such scenarios this Theme can be useful.

What Does Redirect Theme Do ?

Redirect requests

Redirect header – You can choose which HTML header you want sent with your redirect. The default is 301 (Permanent Redirect )as it will help search engines keep track of your sites address.

It also supports

302 Moved Temporarily

303 See Other

304 Temporary Redirect

Pass permalink structure – If your new site is a direct copy of your old one, and has the same posts, pages and permalink structure then you can request that the URL is passed in full to the new site.

E.G. If the call to the old site is http://www.myoldsite.com/2008/10/mypost then the redirected URL would be http://www.mynewsite.com/2008/10/mypost

Pass query string – If this option is enabled then any query string variables and values passed to the old site will also be passed to the redirected URL.

E.G. If the call to the old site is http://www.myoldsite.com/?s=lookforstuff then the redirected URL would be http://www.mynewsite.com/?s=lookforstuff

Upload the Theme as a regular theme and activate the theme and setting the options in the theme options.

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