Comments on: WordPress Ate My Redirects!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:40:57 +0000

How can I include this into a theme’s functions.php? I pasted in the code including the if statement but it didn’t work. I then removed the if statement and then my wordpress install gave me an error about not being able to redeclare wp_redirect

Thoughts?

By: Alfred Armstrong

Alfred Armstrong — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:12:43 +0000

Well spotted! I never thought of testing the trackback links and they were indeed issuing a 302. I’ve change to a default of 301 and it now works. I don’t know why the author of that WordPress code thougt a 302 was warranted.

So hopefully that will now work for you. If not, is it possible that another plugin is installing a version of that function ahead of mine?

By: Binh Nguyen

Binh Nguyen — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:00:58 +0000

Thanks for uploading the file. The problem still remain after I activated the plugin. Worse thing is that I found out all the none trailing dash and all the trackbacks are using 302. Which may describe why many of my posts are at PR0 or PR N/A.

I hope this can be fixed soon. Maybe we should change that
function wp_redirect($location, $status = 302)
into
function wp_redirect($location, $status = 301)

Will such change cause any problems, at all?

By: Alfred Armstrong

Alfred Armstrong — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:38:44 +0000

Binh, sorry the file wasn’t there. I’ve put it back now. Hope it helps solve your problem.

By: Binh

Binh — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:42:52 +0000

Hi, I notice this problem and am looking for a solution. Your download file is not working. I’m using WP 2.3.1 The 302 is annoying me too much because it’s keeping the ugly /?p=x addresses in the Google index. If you have some free time I wish to hear from you. Thanks.