Comments on: Turn Off WordPress Homepage URL Redirection

By: dub2dub

dub2dub — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:58:06 +0000

I set up a new installation of WordPress in my addon domain’s root directory. I’ve created the webiste and everything. When I type in the url of my website, for example: http://example.com the site goes to a “Not Found” page, but my site is showing and if I click the “home” tab on the site, it shows my homepage correctly. Why isn’t my correct homepage showing when I type in my URL? Can someone please help me.

By: Goran

Goran — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:53:29 +0000

After 3 hours of work and searching for a solution that would solve my redirect problem, I have finally fount this website and I would like to thank tha author thousend times for this post.

By: Harry Rate

Harry Rate — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:52:54 +0000

@Webvet.

Sure it may be simpler to have multiple content, but it really does hurt your SEO.

I wasn’t aware of the 301 problem, so should investigate. But could this be sorted out by setting the preferred domain in webmaster tools?

By: jodi

jodi — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:43:22 +0000

hi again

fixed!!! mayur told me to change the permalink setting to month/date and it’s working now

By: jodi

jodi — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:12:05 +0000

i tried what renee did and it works fine for the index.php page, however, when i click on the dummy ‘about’ page in the default template, it jumps back to the live index.html page – am i missing something obvious? thanks

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By: Sebastian @ Dinosaur Games

Sebastian @ Dinosaur Games — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:49:49 +0000

Finding this article two months back would have saved me loads of time…
I installed a new wordpress site and had big problems because I had put in a single HTML site for the first time in conjunction with the wordpress installation. It always redirected from sites to other sites with no apparant reason and I had no idea how to fix it x_x

Now I’ll know where to look at if I should run into that again. Thanks.

By: Renee

Renee — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:43:14 +0000

I tried the solutions mentioned here on my WP 3.0.4 install. They did not help. What did was temporarily commenting out this line on \wp-includes\canonical.php –
add_action(‘template_redirect’, ‘redirect_canonical’);

I will comment it back in when the site is ready to go.

By: Abonk

Abonk — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:33:32 +0000

I have problem with cononical url, i was disabled the canonical url, and setting my .htaccess to redirect my blog from without www to using www, after that i can’t login to my admin page, my password was wrong..
if i using without www i can login. any solution ?

thanks

By: pageblip

pageblip — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:45:14 +0000

is it possible to rename index.php?
i face this problem for some time. but still can’t get any answer on the internet.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:54:06 +0000

Just found out that if you are using redirect plugin you need to go to redirection > groups > and remove the latest redirection as automatically setup.
Wordpress 3.0 seems to stuff this up with the redirection plugin.

By: Career Outlook

Career Outlook — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:48:00 +0000

Very useful tutorial and I didn’t know that wordpress has a automatic redirection system. It could also cause the duplicate content issue within a site.

By: Webvet

Webvet — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:43:11 +0000

One main reason to turn this off in WP is for a very simple fact… and it relates to SEO; and take it from me, I have a been a full-time web developer for 12 years. The way WP wrote the redirect is bad. If you submit your site to Google, or it just finds it as www.yourdomain.com, and the WP redirect is set to yourdomain.com – Google will see a 301 message for www, but instead of following it, the bot will stop dead. So the bot never actually indexes any of your content! Yahoo.com bot does the same. So, you can either worry about the negligible issue of having duplicate content indexed, or settle with no content index at all… I choose multiple content.

By: em

em — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:38:25 +0000

I know I sound like a numpty but were do I put the plugin file?! I’ve downloaded ‘disable-canonical-redirects.php’ but don’t know were to upload it now?

By: Brian D. Hawkins

Brian D. Hawkins — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:17:41 +0000

I guess I prefer the ‘extra work’ method. I use a sub-domain and match the headers to function site wide. Turning off the canonical URL redirection seems dangerous but I can see why some would go that route.

By: Bnpositive

Bnpositive — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:09:09 +0000

You can also use the All-In-One SEO plug-in which turns this function without editing the PHP yourself. I’m a big supporter, fan and friend of Mark Jaquith’s work, but this plug-in provides a lot more features as well if you’re going to install a plug-in.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:25:18 +0000

Thank you for this. One Google search and I got my answer!

By: laura

laura — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:27:18 +0000

hi frien. how do you think about the pretty link. Its a redirection used to create redirection. are you think it will droped our web from search engine?

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:59:43 +0000

Anyone home?

By: Steve @ Find Retro Shower Curtain

Steve @ Find Retro Shower Curtain — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:45:36 +0000

I agree, I don’t like altering .php files. I have done it but I’m never quite sure I’m not screwing something up in the process. Come to think of it, it caused me to delete and reload themes a few times. Thanks for the tip on the plugin. It will come in handy.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:19:08 +0000

Thank you… Didn’t even know there was a plugin yet… Love the idea of not needing to alter existing php

By: Ajith

Ajith — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:29:42 +0000

Hey welcome back. Where have you been?

Thanks for this little tip on WP URL redirection

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:33:11 +0000

I still prefer Index.html method to be the best and handy

By: stratosg

stratosg — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:10:19 +0000

I hadn’t looked into it but i was wondering if this can be done at all. Although you have to be very careful when doing it since duplicate content is not generally a good idea. Nice to see you back