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WordPress Redirection plugin to include query parameters in target URL

I'm using the WordPress Redirection plugin to redirect old landing pages to a new domain.

I'm able to match URLs including any query strings and this redirects 100% to the new domain.

Example: From:

/page/(\?.+)?$

To:

https://new-site.com/page

How can I include query strings in the target URL of the plugin so that the browsers will redirect to something like this:

https://new-site.com/page?q=test&s=test2

.htaccess

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /usbed/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /usbed/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
Solution

  • It's quite simple, actually.

    Just set the Target URL to:

    https://new-site.com/page$1

    $1 refers to the contents of the captured (\?.+) in the RegEx you provided.

    See https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/ for more details.

    See sample below:

    enter image description here

    However, in that example, I used this RegEx: /page(|/|/?\?.+)$, which matches these URLs: (you can test it on RegExr, but you need to escape the / with a \; hence you'd use \/page(|\/|\/?\?.+)$, which is also accepted by the Redirection plugin)

    http://example.com/page
http://example.com/page/
http://example.com/page?q=test&s=test2
http://example.com/page/?q=test&s=test2