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.

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Posted a reply to Only utm_source being stripped on redirect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
To further add to this, if you make this request: http://www.oliveandcompany.com/?source=1234 You get redirected to…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Only utm_source being stripped on redirect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am unable to reproduce this problem, and the same applies no matter what the…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Agent: Not using redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, no that's not something the plugin can affect. If you see that in the…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Agent: Not using redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Getting a 403 for what? Have you created a 403 error in the plugin? If…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Can’t find server redirect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, it wasn't added recently. What issue with it do you have? You may be…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Agent: Not using redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Your hosting provider may have more details about the error log.

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Agent: Not using redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That URL still seems to be cached with Cloudflare. Redirection is not causing the page…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Regex Redirect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Your original regex looks fine, but you don't need the /g flag as that is…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Agent: Not using Redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, the built-in redirect checker will work exactly the same as any other similar service.…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Agent: Not using Redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So you seem to have quite a lot of redirects. Is there any other redirect…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Problem found with PHP 7.3 (SITEGROUND USERS), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That's great, but I don't think the other problems are connected. The redirect checker is…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Problem found with PHP 7.3 (SITEGROUND USERS), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, I don't think that is connected to using PHP 7.3. It is more likely…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Agent: Not using Redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, but is your site cached in anyway? Can you provide a screenshot of the…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Problem found with PHP 7.3 (SITEGROUND USERS), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you provide any more information about the error? It should appear in your error…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Agent: Not using Redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Without knowing the full details it's hard to say, but is the site cached in…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Common error: Expected 301, Found 200, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's not an error, it's just a response. The above URL is redirecting.

4 days ago
Posted a reply to better search replace http to https redirects, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I probably said that WordPress will auto redirect trailing slashes. Permalink settings can be found…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Regex Redirect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You don't need to escape the / and the /g will not work - it…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirection vs Paged redirections, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
More details about regular expressions can be found here: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/ You will need to create…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirection vs Paged redirections, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That regular expression won't work - it will match https://www.website.com/https://www.website.com/category/expired-post-name/something - you shouldn't include the…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to After redirecting pages, how long to wait to redirect main site domain?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Redirecting the site name and the pages aren't separate things - they're both just redirects.…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to After redirecting pages, how long to wait to redirect main site domain?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Your original question was how long to keep redirects from site1 to site2 in place,…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to After redirecting pages, how long to wait to redirect main site domain?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You should keep it as long as you need requests to be redirected from the…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Forward slash link vs no forward slash, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I can't really answer that for you as it depends on the context of your…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirection vs Paged redirections, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No. A redirect is for the exact URL that you entered. If you want to…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Multiple 404 errors from same IP address, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
See https://redirection.me/support/faq/#weird

6 days ago
Posted a reply to better search replace http to https redirects, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I really couldn't say. Have you deleted any of the years? Do you have an…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to better search replace http to https redirects, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
1) Maybe? It's a log, so contains a list of all the times a redirect…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to better search replace http to https redirects, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok. I'm not sure what you are trying to show. The screenshots show some other…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to .html redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You don't need the \\ in the source - just a single \ is sufficient.

7 days ago
Posted a reply to redirect all 404 errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I do not advise you redirect all 404s, and you should only redirect pages that…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to better search replace http to https redirects, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Neither of those links contain any image

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Delete one parameter form url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use a regular expression as described here: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/ You will need to come…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to domain/category%/%postname%/ to domain/%postname%/, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use a regular expression as described here: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

1 week ago
Posted a reply to 301 Redirect for www to non-www, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can set the canonical option as described here: https://redirection.me/support/site-options/

1 week ago
Posted a reply to What to do after moving a site ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, if you are removing /blog/ then you'll need to update your redirects to match.

1 week ago
Posted a reply to better search replace http to https redirects, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Search what with the plugin? Redirects? Logs? 404s? The plugin is only reporting the data…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Is it possible to use WP regex like %post_id%? tegory% etc?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, you cannot use permalink values.

1 week ago
Posted a reply to better search replace http to https redirects, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There's no facility in Redirection to do that. At best you would need to run…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to What to do after moving a site ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Without knowing more details I couldn't say what you need to do next. If you…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to better search replace http to https redirects, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is probably a question best suited for the better search plugin. I don't have…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Only redirect blog/portfolio pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's not easy to create this kind of regular expression because it will affect other…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Group selection menus only show one page of groups, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please see https://github.com/johngodley/redirection/issues/739

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Sign in to post a comment, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use a regular expression: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Wildcard for IP?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Wildcards are not currently supported: https://github.com/johngodley/redirection/issues/1878

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Sign in to post a comment, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What redirect have you created for this?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Having problem with redirecting .html pages from previous site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use a regular expression to redirect all .html URLs: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/ Depending on how…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect .com to .org/en, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, you can either create a redirect for that, or use the Site alias feature.…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to How to import 410 ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is not possible to import a 410 via CSV. You will need to use…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to redirection product url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As there is no way to know what the product is from the URL alone…

2 weeks ago