Requirements
Shifter supports simple one by one redirects.
Some examples
A. Redirect to a different web site
Source URL https://www.example.com/abc/
Target URL: https://www.example.org/
.
B. Redirect to a different post or page:
Source URL https://www.example.com/abc/
Target URL https://www.example.com/def/
.
C. Strip the date from URL:
Source URL https://www.example.com/2018/01/01/abc/
Target URL https://www.example.com/abc/
.
It may require changing permalink structure to "Post name"
Shifter doesn't support advanced redirection
- Value without a tailing slash
- Regular expressions
- Pattern matches
- Pass-throughs
- Random posts
- Redirect from root directory to other directory, post or page. ( No single value of
/
is allowed to Source URL) - 404 not found error detections
Some examples
- redirecting from http://www.example.com/foo to http://www.example.com/bar
- redirecting from http://www.example.com/fo.*/ to http://www.example.com/bar/
- Redirect from
/ab.?/
directory to/def/
directory. - Redirecting users based on their browser. Such as a
User Angent
using Safari being redirected from http://www.example.com/foo/ to http://www.example.com/bar/ .