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Blake Imeson / July 14, 2010

WordPress Redirection Plugin – Home Page Redirect Problem / Bug

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.

Resources

  • Fix For Home Page Redirects To Newly Published Pages Problem After Upgrading To WordPress 3.0
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Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: bug, plugin, redirection, WordPress, WordPress 3.0

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  1. Steve says

    January 7, 2011 at 9:47 am

    Thanks a lot for this post, I was desperately trying to find out what the issue was all about !!!

    Reply
  2. dandy says

    January 26, 2011 at 11:41 am

    Yes 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.

    Reply
  3. Oblik says

    February 4, 2011 at 3:06 am

    I LOVE YOU,
    you have save my day. Peace.

    Reply
  4. Dominic Johnson says

    February 14, 2011 at 1:57 am

    Many 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!

    Reply
  5. Stephen says

    February 28, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    Just ran into this bug and was able to fix it with your help.

    Reply
  6. Soap Making Jon says

    April 14, 2011 at 7:13 am

    THANK 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!

    Reply
  7. Pierre says

    May 23, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    Thanks for this tutorial!
    I don’t understand why it hasn’t been fixed by the plugin updates…

    Reply
  8. Dess says

    June 9, 2011 at 6:56 am

    I 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.

    Reply
    • 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.

      Reply
  9. Seostain says

    June 23, 2011 at 9:32 am

    Thank You from Russia! Now my main page is working!

    Reply
  10. Jimmy says

    July 20, 2011 at 5:24 am

    You Frikking Genius. I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to figure this out,

    Reply
  11. Tracy says

    September 19, 2011 at 1:54 pm

    Wow. That was so easy and I have spent 2 days trying to figure this out. Thank you so much!

    Reply
  12. telugu says

    May 10, 2018 at 1:33 am

    Hey, Thank You! Very much.
    It’s working now.

    Reply

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