Redirect non-www to www in Wordpress
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. |
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