themightyant

I have added META REFRESH to the pages temporarily but would still like to know if it is possible to change this through a 301 redirect located in an htaccess file in a subdirectory.

Also does anyone know how META REFRESH affects SEO?

Hi Alieneila, thanks for the prompt response.
I had considered this but have heard that some search engines don’t like it for SEO purposes and consider that it may be spam thus affecting pagerank.
I can’t find the exact page with that on but an example is:
https://www.redalkemi.com/blog/the-seo-war-of-redirects-301-vs-302-vs-meta-refresh-tag

Thoughts?

Hi I have fixed this.
If anyone else has a similar problem it is because WordPress already writes to an htaccess file to make pretty permalinks. As such writing my own htaccess file overrided the wordpress permalinks.

To fix, in the wordpress backed just go to Options -> Permalinks and update the permalink structure, it should rewrite the htaccess file.