WPMU DEV Community » Topic: plugin 404 Simple Redirect http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/plugin-404-simple-redirect WPMU DEV Community » Topic: plugin 404 Simple Redirect en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 21:17:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/search.php Arun Basil Lal on "plugin 404 Simple Redirect" http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/plugin-404-simple-redirect#post-244185 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:19:12 +0000 Arun Basil Lal 244185@http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/

@Ella

That sounds about right. Let me ping the dev to see if this is the right way to do so.

Hang on.

Ella on "plugin 404 Simple Redirect" http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/plugin-404-simple-redirect#post-242526 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:33:10 +0000 Ella 242526@http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/

Hi Arun,

Thank you I will do that.

I had on my website ellad2.com (my production website) a lot of links between the blog and the store.
To repair every link manual is a hell of a job.

On ellad2.com/shop I have the test site.
I tried the following and please tell me when I destroyed anything what I can not see now or what will give a lot of problems in the future.

I was thinking that the link (with the phrase “products-page” in it) between the blog and store had to be somewhere in the database.

So I made a copy of the database from the test site and downloaded it.
With notepad ++ I opened the database and replaced everything with: /products-page/ “my categories”/ to /store/products/
That way I changed 6 categories to repair all internal links. Removed the old database and replaced with my new one.

And it is working…. (Feel like a pro ;) )

Can I do the same trick with my production site?
I see also still in my database a lot of tables of wp-ecommerce. Can I delete that?

Only the external links to go…

Ella

Arun Basil Lal on "plugin 404 Simple Redirect" http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/plugin-404-simple-redirect#post-242489 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:49:42 +0000 Arun Basil Lal 242489@http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/

Hey @Ella

You could use this broken link checker plugin to make sure that all those old links are removed. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/

Then re-build the sitemap and re-submit it via the webmasters tools. Shortly Google will also de-index the pages that do not exist anymore.

That should work, don't you think?

Good luck!

Ella on "plugin 404 Simple Redirect" http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/plugin-404-simple-redirect#post-242421 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:34:56 +0000 Ella 242421@http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/

Hi Arun,

Thank you for your respond.
From the above you suggested, only smart-404 is working.

I have all those old links ( a lot) from wp ecommerce like /products-page/bracelets/etc
Do you other suggestions to fix that?

Ella

Arun Basil Lal on "plugin 404 Simple Redirect" http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/plugin-404-simple-redirect#post-242215 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 06:28:43 +0000 Arun Basil Lal 242215@http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/

Hey Ella.

This could be because the checkout page doesn't really exists as a page and the plugin thinks it is a 404 error or something.

Why don't you try other redirection plguins?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/404-redirected/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/404-redirection/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-404/

Good luck!

Ella on "plugin 404 Simple Redirect" http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/plugin-404-simple-redirect#post-242200 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:56:02 +0000 Ella 242200@http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/

Hi there,

Don't know or this the place is for my comment.
When the plugin 404 Simple Redirect is activated it is not possible anymore to go to the checkout page. When you click at checkout in the shopping cart, you come back to the homepage.

Ella