Why 410's for only WP permalinks?

  • Does this plugin only work with manually created URLs that only fit the WordPress structure?

    That seems rather limited, and counter to its need… all the URLs that I have that are now gone are from a very old version of the site from when it was running Movable Type almost 10 years ago. Google STILL hasn’t removed those links from searches, so I’ve been manually adding 410 responses for them.

    Trying out this plugin, and trying to manually add several old URLs plus set the 404 logging to zero both failed. I keep getting stuck in an “Are you sure?” loop whenever I try to set logging to zero, and it says that my URLs don’t match the permalinks format for my site so it doesn’t add them.

    Well, of course they don’t match my site… they are from an ancient pre-WordPress version of my site that I’m trying to redirect to let people know they’re gone for good.

    I was really hoping for a solution here, but this plugin seems to really only be another 404 manager, not a 410 manager.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-410/

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  • Plugin Author Samir Shah

    (@solarissmoke)

    Hi fpmsummer,

    The “Are you sure” thing was a bug, which has been fixed in version 0.8.5 of the plugin just released.

    As regards your question about permanlinks:

    The plugin runs as part of WordPress – and that means it will only ever execute when your web server passes a request to WordPress. If you try to fetch a URL that is not passed to WordPress, your web server will return a 404 long before this plugin has a chance to intercept the request and return a 410. That is why it will only work with URLs that WordPress can handle.

    The URLs don’t have to fit your permalink structure – they just have to be handled by WordPress instead of by your web server directly.

    For old URLs that are not in your WordPress path, the only way to issue a 410 response is to configure your web server to do so for those URLs. This is more efficient anyway, and recommended. The plugin is only intended for people who have not access to their web server configuration.

    Finally, note that Google currently does not treat 410 responses any differently from 404s, so this isn’t likely to fix your indexing problem.

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