Moving WordPress: Individual 301 Redirects with PHP
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008I recently decided to move part of an old blog to an independent site.
In order to maintain the meager search engine and referral traffic that the old pages had, I planned on using 301 Redirects. I figured that I would re-create each of the old articles (~10 total articles) on the new site and set up an individual 301 Redirect to send users and search engine spiders to the new location.
The problem, however, was that the standard .htaccess rewrite that WordPress uses was conflicting with the 301 Redirects. For some reason, they just weren’t working – so I turned to a PHP-based solution.
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