John Godley – @johnny5

Member Since: March 12th, 2005
Location: London, UK
Website: johngodley.com
Employer: Automattic
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Long-term plugin developer with many WordPress plugins (and some bbPress ones too), as well as several guides and articles stretching back into the misty past.

Employed by Automattic to bring more WordPress to the world.

Contribution History

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Posted a reply to redirect all 404/links to single page., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Usually I advise that people don't redirect 404s unless for specific reasons, such as pages…

21 hours ago
Posted a reply to Pass-through for PDF not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The passthrough feature is not designed to be used in this way and will not…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirect Subdomain, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What I meant was, what have you created in Redirection for this? How have you…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirection of URL with query parameters, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, I can't see all of the details but that looks like you've got the…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirection of URL with query parameters, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can upload it to any image sharing site. For example, imgur.com

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirection of URL with query parameters, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, but what redirect have you created for it? Can you show a screenshot?

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirect Subdomain, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What have you done to achieve this redirect?

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Locked myself out with Regex, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yep, rename the plugin's directory to disable it, login, and then re-enable the plugin and…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirection of URL with query parameters, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What have you done to achieve this redirect?

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Regex redirection?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That regex does not match the URLs you listed: https://regex101.com/r/JB7hGn/1

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirection Plugin Faults, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That isn't a problem and is just the plugin probing to see if it already…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to URL Options – Ignore Slash, Ignore Case – Not available, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for posting the follow-up. I will look at making this clearer in the user…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Regex redirection?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That looks like it will do the job. You can use something like https://regex101.com/ to…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to how long time to keep the 301 ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, maybe pause and take a step back. I don't know what engines you are…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to how long time to keep the 301 ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, I can't. As I said, it's entirely dependant on your site and the redirect.…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to how long time to keep the 301 ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You should keep them as long as they are useful. That is entirely up to…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to http to https migration will affect redirects?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If the source URLs are relative to the site then they will work on any…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirection plugin not working for WIX, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Redirection can only redirect on a site where the plugin is installed. I don't think…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to “Add to cart” button not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't know how you have your site setup, but if a redirect is affecting…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Import Redirection using Pass through, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That is not supported by the CSV file format. You will need to use the…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Question about hits, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hits count every access to a redirect. There is no filtering.

5 days ago
Posted a reply to URL Options – Ignore Slash, Ignore Case – Not available, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm only trying to help. I would like to see if the display looks normal.…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Red_Item::create throws error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can find a little more info here: https://redirection.me/developer/

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection and “rest_no_route”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Something is blocking your REST API, and this is likely a security plugin of some…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to URL Options – Ignore Slash, Ignore Case – Not available, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you post a screenshot?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to cancel all redirects, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can delete a redirect from inside the plugin, and if you delete the plugin…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect to with / and without, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please see the 'ignore trailing slash' option: https://redirection.me/support/matching-a-url/

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect to instagram mobile app, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can put anything in the target URL, so it's worth trying out.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Changing Permalink Structure of Blog – Auto Redirect?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There's an outstanding issue for it here: https://github.com/johngodley/redirection/issues/476 However, it's not an easy thing to…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection Plugin Faults, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not sure what the situation is right now?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to A deleted url redirection rule keeps redirecting to the same url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't really understand the problem. If you delete a redirect then it won't have…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Changing Permalink Structure of Blog – Auto Redirect?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, that's not something the plugin does. You will need to redirect each post.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect TO url with hash / anchor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, please see https://github.com/johngodley/redirection/pull/2016 for the Apache #

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Is there a way to redirect specific buttons ONLY in some circumstance, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't really understand what you mean, but you can only redirect based on URLs.…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Deleted Redirection But Problem Persists – Main Service Pages Returning 404, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Deleting the Redirection plugin will have no effect on 404 pages

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection + Google Analytics events: how to show the true link in reports, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Redirects won't be tracked by external sites. There is a feature request for this here:…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect not working with parameter ?fbclid= from Facebook, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As discussed in the thread, this is part of the plugin. https://redirection.me/support/matching-a-url/

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection Plugin Faults, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's hard to say without context. Is that a plugin you use? If so then…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection Plugin Faults, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I wasn't able to reproduce the problem on your site. The groups always show no…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection Plugin Faults, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Would it be possible to access the site and try and reproduce the problem? At…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection Plugin Faults, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, that describes a misbehaving cache and is likely caused by a caching system which…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection Plugin Faults, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, what you described sounds very much like something is incorrectly caching your data. Groups…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection from backend, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, the plugin does not allow wp-admin to be redirected to prevent user error.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection Plugin Faults, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Do you have any caching on your site?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Question about hits, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not sure what you mean. The hits count records each time the URL is…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to New columns: Added By and Date Added, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There'a request for that here, if you want to follow the progress: https://github.com/johngodley/redirection/issues/573

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to How to 301 redirect to www, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use a regular expression: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/ Combined with a 'URL and server' match: https://redirection.me/support/matching-redirects/

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect url path, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please take a look at regular expressions: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
How is it not working? What redirect did you create for it?

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error Too Many Redirects, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You have likely created an infinite redirect. You will need to look through your redirects…

3 weeks ago