John Godley
@johnny5 on WordPress.org
- Member Since: March 12th, 2005
- Location: London, UK
- Website: johngodley.com
- GitHub: johngodley
- Employer: Automattic
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John Godley’s badges:- Core Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Theme Developer
- Translation Contributor
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										Posted a reply to Redirection not working, generated 403, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 @smarterdigitalltd and cookie nonce error is usually caused by caching, and logging out, clearing all…4 hours ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirection Not Working Starting This Week, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 No, the plugin works on all recent versions, and is not causing a problem for…8 hours ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirection Not Working Starting This Week, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Nothing has changed in the plugin so this issue must be something on your site.…18 hours ago 
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										Posted a reply to compatibility with Enfold theme, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 I don't know what you are showing in the first screenshot. Can you include a…22 hours ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirection not working, generated 403, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Is this the same problem as your other thread, because it would be easier to…22 hours ago 
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										Posted a reply to compatibility with Enfold theme, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 What is the URL redirection conflict? I do not know what the enfold theme is.…1 day ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirection not working, generated 403, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Your .htaccess file has nothing to do with Redirection. You should not touch it unless…2 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to $1 not working as intented, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 The $1 will always work as per the regular expression specification. If it's not doing…2 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirect all pdfs from one folder to another, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Sure, you can use a regular expression: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/ I don't think it says that a…2 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirect all pdfs from one folder to another, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Please see the bottom section of this guide: https://redirection.me/support/problems/url-not-redirecting/ Your regex needs the leading /…2 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Unknown character set: ‘utf8_unicode_ci’, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 As the error said, you had an unknown character set. Now you have a known…3 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to How to exclude pattern from 404s, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 You can use the grouping function to see what URLs are the biggest problems. You…3 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to How to exclude pattern from 404s, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Those sound like real 404s that need resolving - they are being requested and causing…3 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to HSTS header – support both preload and includeSubDomains?, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 You can type your own custom header in and set the value to whatever you…3 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirect all pages to homepage, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Details about regular expressions can be found here: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/3 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Compatibility with Yoast SEO Premium Redirection feature, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 If both plugins are running then both will do whatever they are configured to do.…3 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Permalink – Cant find right regex, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Did you clear your browser cache? As it states in the guide, it is in…4 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Permalink – Cant find right regex, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 It's not possible to use a regex for that as category is not in the…4 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to external linke – Invalid request parameter, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 What is the link?4 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to WooCommerce Product Permalinks, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 1) I don't know what %product_cat% is but you may be able to use a…5 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Rewriting external links to protect digital downloads., on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 No, md5 is a one way hash. It is not possible to decrypt it because…5 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Site technical problem – PHP update error triggered, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 See details here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-8-compatibility-13/6 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Support (“Tested”) For WP 5.8?, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 See details here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-8-compatibility-13/6 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Please help config date for numbers string!., on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 You will need to use a regular expression: https://searchregex.com/support/regular-expression/6 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Way to create exceptions to a rule that redirects all pages in a section?, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Yes, the position applies to any redirect.6 days ago 
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										Posted a reply to Rewriting external links to protect digital downloads., on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 The plugin lets you redirect a URL to another URL. These are the ways you…1 week ago 
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										Posted a reply to Way to create exceptions to a rule that redirects all pages in a section?, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Yes, you can use the position setting. Lower values are actioned first.1 week ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirect homepage to new site, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 There is nothing special needed for the home page. More likely you have another redirect…1 week ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirect Update/Creation Trigger Cache Clean (which function to use), on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 redirection_update_redirect is different from redirection_redirect_updated - one is a filter and comes before and one…1 week ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirects page wont load, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 You can disable Redirection in order to delete a redirect: https://redirection.me/support/disable-redirection/ It's also more likely…1 week ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirect Update/Creation Trigger Cache Clean (which function to use), on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 As per the guide https://redirection.me/developer/wordpress-hooks/: - redirection_redirect_updated – Action fire when a redirect is updated/created…1 week ago 
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										Posted a reply to Regular expression not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Details for that here: https://redirection.me/support/problems/url-not-redirecting/2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Regular expression not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 You don't need to escape the / character. Have you cleared your browser cache?2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to excluding redirect when logging in as admin, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 The site relocate feature will do this for you: https://redirection.me/support/site-options/2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Regular expression not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Please see the guide, specifically the section about testing expressions and escaping characters. https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Possible to match only a category /category/ or /post-category/, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 What have you tried that doesn't work?2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Possible to match only a category /category/ or /post-category/, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 You can find details here: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to excluding redirect when logging in as admin, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 It's not really clear what you are trying to do, but if you are redirecting…2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Match by role/capability, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 You would need one redirect per rule you want to check. Probably, it is up…2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Upgrade database programmatically on installation, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 I've tracked it here: https://github.com/johngodley/redirection/issues/30452 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to limit redirect to one time to prevent loop, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 It is not possible to limit a redirect. Instead you will need to ensure your…2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to How to pass string in URL as parameter to new URL, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 You can use a regular expression to capture from the source and pass to the…2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to RENEW SITE, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 You can find documentation for the plugin here: https://redirection.me/support/2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Compatibility with Pretty Links Plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 I've never used that plugin so can't really provide any information. There's no reason they…2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Content-Security-Policy warning, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 It's not something I can really advise about as it is specific to the needs…2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirection not showing 404 errors or log, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Have you enabled the logging option?2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Content-Security-Policy warning, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 You can change the setting to be whatever you need.2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Unable to disable plugin or redirect, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 If you have deleted the redirect and the plugin then it is not redirecting anything.…2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Redirect lowercasing query parameters, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 The plugin does not change the case of the target query parameters. Do you have…2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Not showing the condition logged or loggedout, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Can you provide more details? I don't really understand the problem. What is not working?3 weeks ago 
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