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 fbclid, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
All those questions were answered and appear to be resolved. References to the "useless" 'use…

24 hours ago
Posted a reply to fbclid, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, but you referred to an error that has apparently been around for years and…

1 day ago
Posted a reply to Interstitial JavaScript Redirect with Redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
All hooks are listed here: https://redirection.me/developer/wordpress-hooks/

1 day ago
Posted a reply to fbclid, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What redirection error are you referring to?

1 day ago
Posted a reply to clicks by period, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, there is no ability to do this with the plugin.

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Access to RSS feed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, it doesn't work correctly. You can follow that issue to keep track of it

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Access to RSS feed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please see https://github.com/johngodley/redirection/issues/1788

2 days ago
Posted a reply to adding to the end of the target causing not Found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It isn't encoded. https://redirect.li/http/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faristake.smartleads.eu%2Ftes%2527t You can see the redirect location is /?post=35/

3 days ago
Posted a reply to adding to the end of the target causing not Found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It redirects to /?post=35/ https://redirect.li/http/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faristake.smartleads.eu%2Ftes%2527t

3 days ago
Posted a reply to adding to the end of the target causing not Found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I still don't understand what you are trying to do. The ignore trailing slash affects…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to adding to the end of the target causing not Found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't really understand what you mean. Can you show a screenshot of the redirect…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to adding to the end of the target causing not Found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, but what redirect did you create for it? Can you show a screenshot?

3 days ago
Posted a reply to adding to the end of the target causing not Found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What redirect have you created?

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirect from subdomain to domain, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It seems the subdomain is on hubspot. You will need to perform your redirect there.

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Update from 2.4.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It should upgrade fine although, as with any upgrade, you should make a backup of…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirect from subdomain to domain, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You've blurred out the domain so I can't check. Do requests for the subdomain go…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Is anyone losing indexed pages?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What redirects did you create? The plugin only does what you tell it to. There…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to redirect to custom front-end registration page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, it should work.

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirect everything past /, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, your regular expression needs to match the whole URL otherwise you will only replace…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirect everything past /, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What redirect did you create?

5 days ago
Posted a reply to 404 results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sometimes there is no explaining bot behaviour. https://redirection.me/support/faq/#weird

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirect to HTTPS, www AND URI?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That is how it is supposed to work. Can you give a real example of…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to redirection to the old address, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What is the URL, what redirect did you create, and what should it be redirecting…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to [Redirection] Redireted to home, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
https://getmovil.com/amp/ is being redirected to https://getmovil.com/ What is the error you mention?

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirects from google searches, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you provide a real URL that isn't working?

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirect links with external URL to my site /#, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can't put the ^ in the target - it's not a valid URL. What…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirect links with external URL to my site /#, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't know what you mean by 'stay in the same page'. A redirect always…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to How to redirect based on IP ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you give a URL to test? The 'do nothing' will work. If you want…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to How to redirect based on IP ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, your regular expression also includes the target. You will either need to modify the…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirects from google searches, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't understand your last question. Google doesn't redirect anything - it is your site…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to How to redirect based on IP ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Details here: https://redirection.me/support/matching-redirects/

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirects from google searches, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You shouldn't have the double slashes there. /^/ is incorrect and ^/ is correct. You…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirects from google searches, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use a regular expression: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirection persist after disable & uninstall., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The topic was marked as resolved so I assume you found a solution. For anyone…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to How to create more then 10 aliases?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You really have 30 domains you want to alias? There is an arbitrary max of…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirect links with external URL to my site /#, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is the external site hosted on the new site too? If so you can do…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirect links with external URL to my site /#, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The source is not a valid URL, unless you want to match https://yoursitename.com/juanvalera.org/files/something, which I…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirect links with external URL to my site /#, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's the one that says regular expression - regex

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirect links with external URL to my site /#, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use a regular expression to redirect multiple URLs: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Adding new rules through code, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For Apache you can use RewriteCond with the -f flag. There's a similar rule for…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Adding new rules through code, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, but what I meant is that some sites are (poorly) configured to try and…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Adding new rules through code, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Redirecting a static file depends on the server setup. Some servers are configured to bypass…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Undefined offset – plugins/redirection/models/url-request.php on line 28, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What URL is being requested? What redirect do you have configured for that?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Canonical Settings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I think it's still cached. If I try this: https://www.reclaimdesign.org/?v=1 Then it redirects, and the…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Canonical Settings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Your site appears to be cached, and that may need to be cleared.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Found: 200 Agent: Not using redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It seems to be working now: https://redirect.li/http/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpassionroamer.com%2Fhow-is-it-to-date-colombian-girls-what-you-need-to-know%2F Note that you are using Cloudflare

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to How to clear logs?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There is a delete button at the bottom of the log page.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect – Using regex to redirect if the source URL contains a certain string, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, it looks like it will work. You can try it out on your site…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect – Using regex to redirect if the source URL contains a certain string, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can test your expression here to see if it matches: https://regex101.com/ I don't think…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to opt-in and redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The plugin handles redirects, it does not handle opt-in's or cookies. You will need to…

2 weeks ago