I came across a bug in WordPress 3.0 with the wonderful Redirection plugin. When you create a new post/page it will somehow add a redirect that makes the home page redirect to the new post/page.
What happens is that it creates a redirect automatically in the Modified posts group.
Tools>>Redirection>>Groups>>Modified posts
Just delete the redirect that has been created to “/” and it should be fine.
This solves the Redirection plugin bug, problem, issue, whatever. This only happens with newly published posts / pages. Hopefully they will fix this awesome WordPress plugin soon.
Steve says
January 7, 2011 at 9:47 amThanks a lot for this post, I was desperately trying to find out what the issue was all about !!!
dandy says
January 26, 2011 at 11:41 amYes this happens. And i have to manually remove it from the plugin settings. I dont know why its happening as its difficult for my clients to maintain.
Oblik says
February 4, 2011 at 3:06 amI LOVE YOU,
you have save my day. Peace.
Dominic Johnson says
February 14, 2011 at 1:57 amMany thanks for this post – really helpful. Any idea when a full fix will be live?
I agree Great Plugin – we redirect to Google tracking URL’s to create an excellent promotion code tool!
Stephen says
February 28, 2011 at 7:55 pmJust ran into this bug and was able to fix it with your help.
Soap Making Jon says
April 14, 2011 at 7:13 amTHANK YOU! I’m in the process of trying to convert my old site to WP and was having a horrible time trying to get this to work right!
Pierre says
May 23, 2011 at 5:05 pmThanks for this tutorial!
I don’t understand why it hasn’t been fixed by the plugin updates…
Dess says
June 9, 2011 at 6:56 amI was enjoying this redirection plugin quite for some time and after a while it created a redirect for the home page to another page and I was not able to see my home page for many months at some point I disabled the plugin. But creating a redirect in hosting account cpanel is a real time killer- at least for me and I had to get back to this plugin which is so nice in many ways. But the homepage still redirected to another page of the same domain. I upgraded the plugin to the latest version Redirection V 2.5 And still the problem existed. Then after I read your post, I couldn’t figure out how I can do that. This is what I did though: I disabled Group redirection and Voila it worked. I checked if anything in my redirection links changed and they are intact. Well thanks you gave me the clue. But how come I missed the point you mentioned while others easily understood? I couldn’t find a place to put / as you said. Thanks anyway.
Blake Imeson says
June 9, 2011 at 6:58 am@Dess – You are right, probably need to emphasize that you can disable the group redirection. Thanks for commenting.
Seostain says
June 23, 2011 at 9:32 amThank You from Russia! Now my main page is working!
Jimmy says
July 20, 2011 at 5:24 amYou Frikking Genius. I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to figure this out,
Tracy says
September 19, 2011 at 1:54 pmWow. That was so easy and I have spent 2 days trying to figure this out. Thank you so much!
telugu says
May 10, 2018 at 1:33 amHey, Thank You! Very much.
It’s working now.