[WordPress Tips] How to Redirect Old Links to New Links – You have some old posts but you don’t want to delete them, you want to add new content and edit the post title including your own link. posts. Changing the article’s links will make it impossible for users to access the old link to access the article because you changed it and lead to a 404 not found error. SEO so what to do?
In the previous article about WordPress tricks, I showed you how to remove the category word in WordPress URLs to help you get a more SEO-friendly link. Continue in this article, I will show you how to redirect. Old link to new link in WordPress simplest.
How to redirect old link to new link
If you have some articles edited with the purpose of refreshing the content and you refresh the links, then to avoid the error not found the simplest method is to redirect the old link to the new link. This helps your Web site not to drop or lose traffic. So how to redirect the old link to the new link? Let’s learn how to redirect old links to new links in WordPress.
If in case you delete many articles about a few hundred articles or more, the most effective way is to Redirect all deleted links to the homepage using the Redirection Plugin , it will automatically return 404 error pages. home page, however if you are only editing a few posts including changing old content and links then the URL Redirect Plugin will be the perfect choice for you.
Like any other Plugin you first need to install the Plugin and activate it to use (refer to the article on how to install the WordPress Plugin with very simple methods).
After successful installation and activation, you will see a Menu named Redirect URL in the Tools Menu
Click on it to install the redirect, the parameters of the plugin are very simple with only 2 main properties:
Inbound: Default is your domain is already predefined just paste the rest link to the old post.
Outbound: In this section, please enter a new link.
After filling in the above two parameters > Click Save to add the link redirect definition.
After you’ve done that, test it out by clicking on the old link. of course you will be directed to new link with new content, too simple to redirect link in WordPress right?
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