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The plugin redirects legacy URLs a previous version of a websites that has since been converted into a Wordpress site. It can also be used for other redirecting, eg having a short URL that directs to a page as part of a campaign. For example: http://www.example.com/old-page.html Can be directed to: http://www.example.com/2011/04/25/new-page.html Simply by adding 'old-page.html' as a custom field when editing new-page within Wordpress. Every time a 404 page is called, the Legacy URL plugin checks the database and if it find a legacy-url value that exactly matches the URL it will redirect to the new page. Please note that this plugin has no settings/options pages within the Wordpress admin module.

1. Install and enable the plugin,
2. Add a custom field in the post or page with the name legacy-url and the value as the URL excluding the domain name. So if the old page is http://www.example.com/this-is-an-old-page.html, the value of the custom field should be this-is-an-old-page.html.

Please note, there is no longer a requirement to manually amend the 404 page. If you have done so, you should remove the doUrlForwarding(); line from the 404 page.

1.2

• Makes use of Wordpress's built-in redirect functionality.
• Uses a hook to add the plugin to the 404 page, so no longer a requirement to amend the 404 page manually.
• No longer makes distinct queries to check for posts and pages, instead searches for 'any' page type.