Redirect non-www to www in Wordpress
Monday, June 19, 2006
For years now, search engines have been struggling with the different variations of domains. For some off reason requests for www.seoweblog.com, seoweblog.com and seoweblog.com/index.php, while obviously return the same page, get indexed as 3 different pages…
The consequinces: Pagerank splits, Backlinks split and lastly you’re risking getting filtered for duplicate content by the new filters at Google.
Over at b5media, we’ve been looking for a way to redirect all non-www request to the appropriate variation of the address, and since all blogs run Wordpress it’s been a challenge to do it through the software itself rather than through the Apache server settings.
Last week, Matt introduced a plugin that takes all requests for the www version of a site and return a consistent non-www address with the appropriate redirect methods. The plugin, while working good, is only a partial solution as it does not include the index.php requests.
I took the same plugin and created a complementary, improved version of it. Since I like to have all www addresses, I’ve redirected all non-www to www and all index.php to /.
So far it seems to work fine, however, I’m open for suggestions, comments or complaints…
Download: yes-www.zip
Installation Instaructions:
1. Unzip the file.
2. Upload to your Wordpress plugin folder.
3. Activate from within Wordpress admin.
Updates:
| Date | Version | Changes |
| 9/10/2006 | 0.30 | The plugin caused an error when using the wp theme editor. Aparently, it caused an endless redirection loop when editing the homepage. Anyways, now it doesn’t… |
| 6/20/2006 | 0.20 | Previeus version did not process GET queries such as search queries… Added processing for queries and rewrote plugin for smaller / faster version. (Thanks Aaron for your contribution) |
| 6/19/2006 | 0.10 | First version, my first plugin ever, may lack be missing some details, please let me know if anything is not-working / missing. |