Comments on: Test of WordPress’s Default Slug Redirect: 301 or 302?

By: Michael VanDeMar

Michael VanDeMar — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:43:55 +0000

Kyleey – not that I am aware of, no. There might be a plugin that would allow you to override this behavior, but my guess is that it is not something that there is a large demand for so you might have trouble finding something that will do that.

By: Kyleey

Kyleey — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:27:32 +0000

I just tried this on WordPress 3.x – and it works. I was wondering why, by default, WordPress would redirect my posts when I changed slugs, and after reading this I know why, so thank you!

Is there any way to disable that per post? As I have a URL I don’t want redirected.

Thanks,

By: Michael VanDeMar

Michael VanDeMar — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:19:43 +0000

Julian, if you are using a caching plugin it might be overriding the 301 redirect and serving a 200 instead, I have seen this before in the past.

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 01:13:14 +0000

Hi, I don’t understand. In WP 3 I am trying to test this by changing a post slug to something new and then using http://seoredirect.com/ to see the header response but I can’t get 301 redirect, instead I see a 200 OK results. Seems like wordpress is doing an internal redirect differently or so… I am also testing with Redirection plugin in WP, but no luck yet. Hmm still confused.

By: Mystery Shopping

Mystery Shopping — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:59:40 +0000

Glad to see the redirects are 301s. Found a great plugin a while ago to use for managing internal redirects, just wish I could remember what it was!

By: Jamie Barclay

Jamie Barclay — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:25:05 +0000

Thanks for sharing this information. Now we know it won’t work

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:31:45 +0000

Ouch, that did not work either . You would think there is a workable plug-in out there that is compatible with 2.92. The ones I have found so far only seem to do this manually with one post at a time. I can’t seem to find one that automatically redirects all old permalinks to new ones.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:24:45 +0000

Ok, I did the test. No Luck . I get a 404 error instead. I am now about to try this permalink_redirect plugin to see if that works.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:26:24 +0000

I totally understand Michael. I might give it a try to see for my self by creating a test blog. Will post the results back here once I do, ok

By: Michael VanDeMar

Michael VanDeMar — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:15:40 +0000

Paul, I am not sure. I am personally not willing to change the permalink structure on this blog to test that, but it shouldn’t be too hard to set up a test blog and try it to see.