Redirects
On Site → Redirects you send old or changed addresses to their new place. When you change a page's address (URL), a 301 redirect is added automatically, and from the 404 page you can fix a broken address in one click.
Adding a redirect
- Click New redirect.
- From path – the old address starting with a slash, for example
/old-about. No spaces,?or#, and at most 300 characters. One address can only have one redirect. - To path – an internal path (
/about) or an external address (https://…). - HTTP status – 301 (permanent, the default), 302 (temporary), 307 or 308.
For a page that has moved for good, 301 is the right choice: search engines then pass the page's earlier ranking to the new address.
The table shows how often a redirect was used (Hits) and when last (Last hit); you can edit and delete it from there too.
Automatic redirects
When you change the URL of a page, news item or event, or rewrite the URL prefix of news and events, a permanent redirect from the old address to the new one is added automatically, and menu links are updated too.
Quick fix from the 404 page
When you, signed in, land on an address that does not exist, the 404 page offers Redirect this URL to another page: pick the target page and save. Create this URL starts a new page on that address instead.
Bulk import and export
Excel import takes an XLSX or CSV file (up to 5 MB) with the columns from_path, to_path, status_code (optional, 301 by default). At the end it tells you how many rules it created, updated or skipped. Excel export downloads the existing redirects in the same format.