Information for creating and managing redirects in WordPress using the Safe Redirect Manager. Please contact the IT Help Desk for assistance with redirects.


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How do I Create a Redirect?

How do I Create a Simple Friendly Redirect?

How do I Create a Page Redirect?

How do I Create an Advanced Friendly Redirect?

How do I Redirect a Page and All it's Children to a Single Page?

How do I Create a Site Redirect?


Access Safe Redirect Manager

  1. Login to your WordPress Dashboard
  2. Select the Tools icon
  3. Click Safe Redirect Manager

    Select Safe Redirect Manager from the Tools menu


How do I Create a Redirect?

The creation process for a WordPress redirect is documented in this support document.

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Simple Redirects

Create a Friendly Redirect

A friendly redirect is used to create a more readable URL. One might use a persistent friendly URL to point to a media document that is updated frequently or an event URL.


The following are the components needed to create a Friendly redirect on your InsideEWU site.

  • Redirect From: A short sequence of letters preceded by a slash. examples are /friendly, /eventname, /documentname.
  • Redirect To: The full URL of where the friendly redirect should go.
  • HTTP Status: 301 Permanent Redirect

Redirect From

Redirect To

Enable Regular Expressions

HTTP Status Code

/example

https://inside.ewu.edu/examples/example3
unchecked
301 Moved Permanently


Create a Page Redirect

If you delete a webpage, you may want to redirect future requests for it to a different URL.

The following are the components needed to create a Friendly redirect on your InsideEWU site.

  • Redirect From: The context for the deleted webpage. This is the deleted page URL minus your site prefix, for example /it for the webpage https://inside.ewu.edu/it
  • Redirect To: The full URL of where the friendly redirect should go.
  • HTTP Status: 301 Permanent Redirect

Redirect From

Redirect To

Enable Regular Expressions

HTTP Status Code

/old-eaglenet-page

https://inside.ewu.edu/eaglenet
unchecked
301 Moved Permanently

Advanced Redirects


Create an Advanced Friendly Redirect

Simple friendly redirects can fail if used in conjunction with social media. Regular expressions can be used to retain items like tracking parameters in the URL and successfully redirect page requests.


Redirect From

Redirect To

Enable Regular Expressions

HTTP Status Code

/\/example(\/)?(\?.*)?$

https://inside.ewu.edu/$2
checked
301 Moved Permanently

\/example(\/)?(\?(.*))?$ (new?)

https://inside.ewu.edu/$2
checked
301 Moved Permanently


Redirect tests for this scenario

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/example -> https://inside.ewu.edu/example

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/EXAMPLE -> https://inside.ewu.edu/example

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/example/ -> https://inside.ewu.edu/example

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/EXAMPle/ -> https://inside.ewu.edu/example

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/example?a=true -> https://inside.ewu.edu/example?a=true

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/example/?a=true -> https://inside.ewu.edu/example?a=true

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/EXAMPLE?a=true -> https://inside.ewu.edu/example?a=true

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/EXAMple/?a=true -> https://inside.ewu.edu/example?a=true

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/example123 -> No Redirect

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/example123/ -> No Redirect

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/exAMPLE/test -> No Redirect

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/example/test -> No Redirect

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/example123?a=true -> No Redirect

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/example123/?a=true -> No Redirect

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/exampLE/test?a=true -> No Redirect

https://www-stage.ewu.edu/example/test?a=true -> No Redirect


Redirect a Page and Child Pages to a Single Page

This advanced option allows you to redirect a page and any child pages to a specific page. This is often useful when consolidating web content. Two redirect rules are required for this scenario.


Redirect From

Redirect To

Enable Regular Expressions

HTTP Status Code

(?i)^\/(example($|\/$|(\/.*)))

https://inside.ewu.edu/$1
checked
301 Moved Permanently


Redirect tests for this scenario

<site>/example -> https://inside.ewu.edu/example

<site>/EXAMPLE -> https://inside.ewu.edu/EXAMPLE

<site>/EXAMPLE/1234 -> https://inside.ewu.edu/EXAMPLE/1234

<site>/exAMPle/123?a=true -> https://inside.ewu.edu/exAMPle/123?a=true

<site>/exampLe/123?a=true&b=fales&c -> https://inside.ewu.edu/exampLe/123?a=true&b=fales&c

<site>/example gets redirected to https://inside.ewu.edu/example2


Create a Site Redirect

Site redirects can get complicated very quickly, for example, media cannot be redirected from within a site. Please open a support request for assistance with site redirects.