One of the most asked questions I get is How do I 1 to 1 (post to post) redirect wordpress to my new domain?
Occasionally you need to move from one url (domain) to another and you don’t want to lose all the traffic that you’ve worked to get on the old domain.
After you’ve done the grunt work of copying files, folders and database (s) you need to do a good old fashioned 301redirect so that when folks visit http://yourolddomain.com/link they land on http://yournewdomain.com/samelink.
1. Go to your .htaccess file in your cpanel of your OLD domain (this is a hidden file so be sure you have the show hidden files box checked in the file manager)
2. Then use the CODE EDITOR to add the following at the very beginning of the file. If you’re not using www on your domain names, be sure you drop that from the items as needed.
[pastacode lang=”markup” message=”” highlight=”” provider=”manual”]
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldsite.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# END WordPress[/pastacode]
3. Remove any other lines that may be present in your .htaccess for the old site.
4. Save your work.
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