Title: Proper Redirect
Author: peterarends
Published: <strong>June 24, 2011</strong>
Last modified: June 24, 2011

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Proper Redirect

 By [peterarends](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterarends/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/proper-redirect.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/proper-redirect/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/proper-redirect/#developers)

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## Description

Redirects you to the proper URL of the website. In case of stumbling upon a working
alias.

Normally (depending on your settings or control panel) http://misterwebsite.nl (
an alias of www.mrwebsite.nl) just works, but it should be redirected to [http://www.mrwebsite.nl](http://www.mrwebsite.nl).

The same goes for http://mrwebsite.nl (it should be with www. instead without), 
https://www.mrwebsite.nl (it should be http instead of https) and all other aliases.

Before WordPress 3 this just worked out of the box. But it does not anymore.

## Installation

 1. Upload `proper-redirect.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  So why would I ever want to use this plugin?

Well Charlie, that is an excellent question. Thanks very much for asking me this.
It gives me the opportunity to elaborate more on the subject. Which I of course 
like. Because I can sell you more stuff. Oh no, wait, just read on.

 1. It prevents that your website is accessible on multiple domains. It will give your
    visitors a more consistent experience, the url is in the address bar is always 
    similar. It doesn’t matter if they use www. or not in the request, it will work(
    which is good of course) and will redirect to the proper url.
 2. I expect it is better for the search engines as well. It prevents duplicate content.
    But more important, if someone makes a link to an alias of your domain name it 
    might not be counted as a link to your actual website. Which is negative for your
    ranking, it will be divided over two urls. Correct me if I am wronk. That is how
    Brian Cox would say it, right?
 3. For me personally it is handy because I develop on an alias. For example at clientname.
    mrwebsite.nl. When the website is finished and should go live I want to make the
    switch to clientname.nl instead of the clientname.mrwebsite.nl. All I have to do
    now is change the URL in WordPress and the ‘subdomain alias’ stops working. Which
    is nice because WordPress is awesome and the website will be indexed by Google 
    on the temorary address and clients b*tch about that.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Proper Redirect” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ peterarends ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterarends/)

[Translate “Proper Redirect” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/proper-redirect)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/proper-redirect/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/proper-redirect/),
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by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/proper-redirect/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.1

First version

## Meta

 *  Version **0.01**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.1.4**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/proper-redirect/)
 * Tags
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## Contributors

 *   [ peterarends ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterarends/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/proper-redirect/)

## Donate

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 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://www.mrwebsite.nl/donate/)