How do you forward from a bad link?

Use this plugin: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/redirection/

thanks STeve, not looking for another plug ins. Plug in cause a lot of grief and instability.. But I hear this is right in the dashboard… permalink, put in the bad/ put in good and forwards without plug in.

“I hear…” No, that’s not the case.

You could also do a redirect as a line in .htaccess.

Almost comedic, the entire point is to stay away from ht access, which just recently brought down the whole site.

But STeve, I see you are a moderator. If you can just please, say this is not achievable or this does not exist that would be great. GEtting way over complicated here, thanks.

It is absolutely doable in either of the two ways I suggested. If your host knows a better way, ask them to show you. But permalinks is the wrong place.

The fact that you (or someone you hired) broke your site via edits to .htaccess does not invalidate that approach. And, “Plug in cause a lot of grief and instability..?” is a sort of “I heard on the street” warning that ignores any nuance and flows away from the truth.

Good luck!

Ok Steve thanks, htaccess nightmare, was actually htaccess for my html files whew, nasty, yeah, it was never a problem, till it was, so I’ve deleted it. very dangerous file. ( I have a hybrid site both wordpress and normal html files.

Plug in you are right I guess usually ok, but I was advised to trim those, down.

Ok so this Godaddy level 2 tech said in dashboard of wordpress — so you’d say he is incorrect? Fine, you are probably more expert on wordpress — you in fact, do not see in the dashboard a place to insert a bad link and have that forward to a good link? You 100% need a plug in for that? Or maybe fixing “permalinks” was how he was describing it….

If you want a UI for this, install the redirection plugin. I am unable to reach into the minds of GoDaddy support techs; they employ some sort of shielding.